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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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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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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
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Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
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And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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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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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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