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Douglas Coupland Quotes

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Brain Thinking Process You Down Try

I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

Jess Walter

Time Myself Yourself Me Think

I couldn't wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown town house with Dad. I never went back. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for 'Merrywood.' I refused to go.

John Dickerson

Mom Wait Goodbye Back House Party

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.

Solange Knowles

Mother Respect Woman Sister Artist

I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about it now, I would want to see how I would deal with it.

Storm Reid

Knowledge Information Back Go Want

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Rudolf Carnap

Science Surface Depths Everywhere

As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.

Miranda July

Work Me Artist Important Young Very

I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.

Jose Rizal

Family God Hope Me Enough Desire

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

Deborah Bull

Time Dance Royal Class Yes Take

You don't grow up naive in Africa.

Claire Denis

Grow You Africa Grow Up Naive Up

The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That means not by the president, not by Congress.

Chuck Norris

People Congress Bear Right Line

I've given up coffee, made diet changes.

Boy George

Coffee Diet Changes Up Made Given

The kind of money English clubs have available to spend is unbelievable. They buy everything they can.

Arjen Robben

Money Kind Everything Buy English