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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It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.
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The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.
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Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
