Douglas Coupland Quotes
People like that woman make it clear just how asinine it is to believe that human beings have some kind of in-built universal sense of goodness. These days I think that everybody's just one spit away from being a mall bomber.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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I know what poverty is.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.
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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
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But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
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People like that woman make it clear just how asinine it is to believe that human beings have some kind of in-built universal sense of goodness. These days I think that everybody's just one spit away from being a mall bomber.
