Douglas Coupland Quotes
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
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Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.
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The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
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I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
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From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
