Douglas Coupland Quotes
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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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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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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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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Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
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As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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You still waste time with those things, Lenù? We are flying over a ball of fire. The part that has cooled floats on lava. On that part we construct buildings, the bridges, and the streets, and every so often the lava comes out of Vesuvius or causes an earthquake that destroys everything. There are microbes everywhere that make us sick and die. There are wars. There is a poverty that makes us cruel. Every second something might happen that will cause you such suffering that you'll never have enough tears. And what are you doing? A theology course in which you struggle to understand what the Holy Spirit is? Forget it, it was the Devil who invented the world, not the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
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The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.
