Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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I am a Zionist.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
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It's so hard to look at someone doing a triple cork when you're 7 years old, and them saying, 'I want to go do that.' It's not really relatable at all. So, if I can somehow make it so kids want to get into snowboarding, that's special.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Like most people, I had several awakenings.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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Star Trek characters never go shopping.
