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Douglas Coupland Quotes
Douglas Coupland Quotes
Douglas Coupland
Canadian
Author
Born:
Dec 30
,
1961
Because
Life
People
Think
Time
You
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Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.
Douglas Coupland
You
Lose
Once
Way
See
Someone
Never
Look
Same
Again
Them
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
Douglas Coupland
Day
Writing
Lonely
Sit
All Day
Solitary
True
Talk
Cliche
Times
Squirrels
Intensely
Blue
Room
Really
Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
Douglas Coupland
Ecosystem
Just
Body
Your
Your Body
My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'
Douglas Coupland
Day
Mom
You
Job
Parents
Community
One Day
About
Like
How
Question
Begin
Get
Quit
Move
Want
Really
Your
Dad
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Douglas Coupland
Smile
Good
You
Light
Past
Bland
Feels
Like
Green
Forget
Get
Green Light
Moment
Intersection
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
Douglas Coupland
Oneself
Longer
Wished
Goes
Where
Place
Much
Found
Reinvent
Florida
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
Douglas Coupland
Crime
Nothing
Else
TV
Writers
Lazy
Turned
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
Douglas Coupland
People
Park
Over
New
York
New York
Theme
Theme Park
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
Douglas Coupland
Time
Me
You
Solitude
Space
Somewhere
Live
Every
Cities
London
Give
Give Me
New
Like
Know
How
York
Gets
Any
Done
New York
Anyone
Anything
Awful
Things
Every Night
Night
In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.
Douglas Coupland
Broken
Happy
Free
Neighbors
Border
Trips
Crossing
Haven
Safe
Safe Haven
Provide
Canada
Middle
Anyone
While
Dispute
Set
Bones
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
Douglas Coupland
Personality
Will
Consider
Structural
Chemical
Brain
Explained
Much
Functions
Now
Away
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
Douglas Coupland
Fashion
History
Sense
Dimension
Some
Seems
Only
Idea
Feels
Like
Make
Continuation
Rooted
Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.
Douglas Coupland
Cares
Everyone
Someone
Share
He
He Or She
She
Learned
Wants
Really
Who
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
Douglas Coupland
Needs
Relationship
Stronger
Other
Member
Least
Person
Who
There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
Douglas Coupland
Dream
Having
Small
Said
Lot
Manageable
I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.
Douglas Coupland
Music
You
Culture
Words
Own
Everyone
Trends
Broader
See
Able
Days
Like
Read
Because
Wonder
Listen
Want
Dying
Pop
Pop Culture
Used
Lives
Images
Starting
I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
Douglas Coupland
Me
Better
Three
Gone
Air
Flying
Airport
Per
About
Civility
Feel
Like
Know
Most
Make
Up
Than
Ants
Grew
Cent
Bases
Zoo
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
Douglas Coupland
People
Alive
Exactly
Something
Sure
Makes
How
Odd
Quite
Human
Them
Really
Billions
Specifically
Humans
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
Douglas Coupland
Rest
Three
Our
Our Lives
Only
Most
Genuinely
Interesting
Us
Moments
Filler
Lives
Two
If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
Douglas Coupland
Work
Time
Day
You
Year
Think
Adds
Minutes
Over
Course
Up
Five
Holiday
Full
Waste
Wasted
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
Douglas Coupland
Future
You
Past
Though
Look
Particularly
Also
Either
Present
I think the killers get far too much attention.
Douglas Coupland
Too Much
Think
Too
I Think
Attention
Get
Far
Much
Much Attention
Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.
Douglas Coupland
Me
You
Phone
Meet
Must
Talk
Text
Person
Want
Wants
Who
To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.
Douglas Coupland
Health
You
Sports
Culture
Care
Healthy
Financing
Parking
Parking Lot
Health Care
Becomes
Lot
Stable
Arts
Your
Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
Douglas Coupland
Worst
Possible
Thrill
Hot
Hot Dogs
Like
Without
Real
Dogs
Than
Being
Wanting
Product
Meat
Even
Actually
You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
Douglas Coupland
Life
You
Old
Young
Spend
Part
Being
Much
Your
Larger
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