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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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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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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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
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Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.
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In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
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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.
