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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
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Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.
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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
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