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Douglas Coupland Quotes

Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Negative Living Imagine Square Exist

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Words Burn More Deeper Condensed

The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

Stellan Skarsgard

Fear Enemy Actor Any Biggest

That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.'

Best Job Man Do The Right Thing Step

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?'

Thought White Nervous Will Him Here

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Business Pride Skills Nothing False

In business, when you can meet an unmet need that is this primal, even meeting it in a superficial way can create a multi-billion-dollar business - e.g., the chat rooms in AOL when it first came out, or the lounges in Starbucks, or the billion people who are on Facebook - even though these are hardly the most intimate of life experiences.

Life Business People You Create Way

Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums.

Chellie Pingree

Challenge Small Employees Healthcare

The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world - it's a very exciting idea.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Mother Best Football World Play

I think, in all this race and competition, we actors forget how to have fun.

Competition Fun Have Fun Think Race

There were a couple of things I lost sleep over with the play 'Frost/Nixon,' so I went back and addressed them a bit more in the film.

Sleep Back Play Lost More Over

When my dad hit 40, he quit everything. He sold the house and bought the boat and went off sailing the world. I was on that boat from age 12 to 18. We didn't actually go around the world. We went pretty much from France through the whole Mediterranean basin. We went to Ireland first. We also went to coast of Africa, South America and the Caribbean.

Sebastian Roche

Age World Boat America House Quit

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

Love Starting Been Label Some Acts

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