Douglas Coupland Quotes
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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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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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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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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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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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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Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
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I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.
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The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
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The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
