Douglas Coupland Quotes
I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
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I have fabulous children.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.
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I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.
