Douglas Coupland Quotes
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.
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Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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You have to respect your opponent.
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Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
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Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
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I think it's going to be awesome. I don't think there's any other way to put it. Emotions will be running high. All the guys in this clubhouse know what we have, and other people are starting to pay attention, so we'll just have to go out and prove it.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.
