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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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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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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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.
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I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he really didn't care what others thought.
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I'm a competitor.
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You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
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I like to add something unusual to a dish.
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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.
