Douglas Coupland Quotes

Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DayTravelRememberKindClassSame

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

John Oates

FamilyYouYourAroundConstantly

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Anna Friel

LifeLovePeopleMeStartGame

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

Mia Hamm

OpportunityI AmHappyChoicesFeel

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

Mickey Rivers

GamePitchingHalfOtherHitting

The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.

Mitch Glazer

FamilyHappinessBeachMeCoolYou

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

Debi Mazar

CookingMeGrandmotherAlwaysBeen

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

David Walton

YearYouActingKnowWhereLike

It's very strange. I can't go anywhere without somebody stopping me, which is so cool that I get to connect to people that I never might've ever spoken to, or they have an impetus to speak to me. It's created a career that I wasn't sure if I'd ever really have.

Chrissy Metz

PeopleMeCoolSpeakCareerGo

There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.

Brad Carson

ChangeFutureValueDriveStartYou

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Shania Twain

LifeMusicMindMeMy LifeWhatever

I don't think that everything is a zero-sum game in which, when the president of the United States says something, that means that he is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli, or vice versa.

Tzipi Livni

GameThinkPresidentEverythingVice

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

Richard Flanagan

JourneySoulYouOthersOwnShare

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