Douglas Coupland Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an athlete - to react to something in a time when something is going on, and you can't be a second or two behind.
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As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools.
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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
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Never thought I'd be a bobble-head, but little did I know.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
