Douglas Coupland Quotes
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Artists are like everybody else.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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SÃ, trataré de ser. Porque creo que es orgullo no ser.
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I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.
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I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.
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Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.
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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
