Douglas Coupland Quotes
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.
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I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
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From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get there.
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I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
