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Douglas Coupland Quotes

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1961

Topics

Life Weather You Lesson Mad Get

It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.

Good Learn You New Something Role

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

John Van Hamersveld

Life Work Vegas Creating New Signs

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

Steve Jurvetson

Science Slow More Like Version Lab

As a bald man who happens to play golf, or a golfer who happens to be bald, I'll never know the pleasures of a golf visor.

Man Golf Play Know Bald Never

In 2013, I dedicated myself full-time to combating the very real impacts of climate change. Working across the country, NextGen Climate Action formed new coalitions and worked hard to make climate change a part of our national conversation - and across the country, we had a big impact.

Change Myself Action Impact Country

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

Good Famous Lucky Get Bands Really

It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

Pain War Fun People Me Energy

I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

Learning People Think Better You

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

Anything Arts Martial Arts Buff

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

Life My Life Everything Sure Been

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.

Lynne Reid Banks

Time Government War World Fashion

I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.

Day War People Me Voice Think

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