Douglas Coupland Quotes
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I don't really go out at all.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.
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Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
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Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
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Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
