Douglas Coupland Quotes
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
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I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.
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I try as much as possible not to utter a single line that I don't believe in.
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I don't think I worry too much about whether to include a melody line or not in a song. That will come along in a natural fashion. I have always said that a song and a lyric writes itself. I really don't think too much about the actual writing, the arrangements or even the playing. It's second nature by now.
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You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
