Douglas Coupland Quotes
My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I would love for the world to be happier.
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Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and 'gives the whole show away.' The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
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Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!
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If you’ve got more to say, why wouldn’t you say it?
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If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.
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My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.
