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Douglas Coupland Quotes

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Future Thought Way Never Would

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

Love Live Lose Nothing Courageous

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Brainy Run Rivers Habits Unseen Ill

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

Melissa McCarthy

People End Laugh Enough Up Pretend

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Stanley Milgram

Responsibility Action Ignore Easy

Most youth are lacking critical life skills that make them employable and, most importantly, able to keep a job - things like teamwork, decision-making, and time management.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Life Time Job Teamwork Youth Skills

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

People Connections Connection Earth

For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had made a mistake. When they agreed to pay me for the book, I thought they would ask me for the money back.

Time Money Mistake Me Book Thought

Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.

Arancha Gonzalez

Trade Invite Retaliation Policies

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

Success Father Great Money Man War

I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.

People Me Think Better Know Will

I read the 'Fargo' hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn't prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me.

People Me Thought Hearing Up Just

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