Douglas Coupland Quotes
I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.
Quotes to Explore
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I studied Morse code.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I want to win football games.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.
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People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
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If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.
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It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
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I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.
