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Douglas Coupland Quotes

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Live Time New York Space Solitude

When we go city by city, country by country, the majority of our hosts, our owners, are simply renting out their spare bedroom.

Joe Gebbia

City Country Go Bedroom Out Simply

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

John Bradshaw

Work People Hurt Feel Know My Own

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

Jerry Lewis

Writing Dumb Living Act Started Had

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jeremy Grantham

History Great Broken Remember Bubble

It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.

John Gurdon

Work You Find Go Say Way

Avoiding the all-too-typical divisive trappings of a takeover and creating instead a shared transnational culture - this is one of the most important lessons learned from combining Fiat and Chrysler to create FCA.

John Elkann

Culture Create Creating Important

I was always typecast as a Latina.

Rita Moreno

Latina Always Typecast

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Juan Goytisolo

Respect Identity Process Country Own

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Jean Anouilh

Fun Long Poor Anything Would Excess

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Dennis Miller

Cheese Washington Lying Wisconsin DC

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

Boris Yeltsin

Nature Character Challenges New

Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.

Anthony Fauci

Science Opportunities Impact Better