Douglas Coupland Quotes
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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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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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
