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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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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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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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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In my culture, whispering in the company of others is considered rude.
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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
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As everyone in the world can see, I am not a rocker.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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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.
