Douglas Coupland Quotes
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses can be quite small, so the pub is an extension of the living space.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
