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Douglas Coupland Quotes

I've got 911 on speed dial.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Speed Got Dial

That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.

Funny Music Myself People Criticism

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Friend Man Will Others Him Depend

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

Become See Rare Something Get Movie

The ESPYS are about appreciating moments in sports and not looking down on it because it's maybe not your favorite athlete or your favorite team.

Sports Team Looking Moments Down

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

Walk Together Government Doing Easy

I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.

Live Daily People City Looking Look

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

Progress Financial End Lost Crisis

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Leacock

Work Great I Am Luck Chance Find

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

Man America Difficult Own Your

The tactical issue is ISIS or ISIL in the greater Levant area, which is essentially Syria, and Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, et cetera. But the wider problem is not just trans-regional in that part of the world, but it's also global. I mean, 40 to 50 countries supplying fighters to this current fight in the Middle East? Come on.

Michael T. Flynn

Fight World Problem Mean Middle

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

Believe Rich Musicians Trying Done

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

Yourself Be Yourself You Fall Know

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