Douglas Coupland Quotes
I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.
Quotes to Explore
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.
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But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
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I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.
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I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.
