Douglas Coupland Quotes
I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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We are facing extreme volatility.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.
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I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
