Douglas Coupland Quotes
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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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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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
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I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.
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To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
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You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.
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Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
