Douglas Coupland Quotes
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.
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I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.
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I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
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Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.
