Douglas Coupland Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I'm very self-critical.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
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No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
