Douglas Coupland Quotes
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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We just here to do our job.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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I love girl power.
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Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.
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Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law... Just who do we think we are?
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.
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The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.