Douglas Coupland Quotes
Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
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The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
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The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.
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Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.
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Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.
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If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
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In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
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Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
