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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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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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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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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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.
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Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.
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As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they played records in our house all the time, and me and my brother and sister would dance and sing about the living room.
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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.
