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Douglas Coupland Quotes

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life End You Want First Always

Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

Humble People Me Little Girls Lunch

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

Love Everything Used Like Comics

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

Live Innovation Ideas You Look

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

Politics Me World Care Political

For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.

Women Control Management Complicated

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Children World Society Moral Kind

My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next.

Do The Right Thing Me Think Down

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

Change Change The World College World

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

Friends Remember Feeling Kid Always

I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

Feel Enough Always Everybody Quite

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

Change Memories Great Mind Me She

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

Anthony McCarten

Life Reading End Humanity Will Last

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