Douglas Coupland Quotes
I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.
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I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.
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Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter.
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We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
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I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
