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Douglas Coupland Quotes

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Parents You Become Try More Your

I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.

Myself I Am Fashion Body Career Way

When we improvise freely - that is, without a structure - it tends to sound more like 20th century classical music, more like a classical ensemble improvising, as opposed to a free-jazz group, where you're more used to hearing saxophones honking.

John Abercrombie

Music You Group More Sound Hearing

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

Future Time World Uncomfortable Born

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

Andrew Garfield

World Tower Somewhere Rather Than

Don't be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.

Hands You Dirt Afraid Buy Get

The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?

Work People Inspire Questions New

Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.

Change Fun People Vegas Want Will

Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.

Creative Comfortable Write Endeavor

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Facts You Never Survey Out Check

I consider myself a brown American or a man of color before I would say Sri Lankan, to be honest. I didn't grow up there. There was a pretty brutal civil war there from 1983 until 2009. So we weren't able to go back very much. I've gone back as an adult. But I grew up in Pennsylvania.

Myself Man War Color Grow American

Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.

Time Parents Grow Grow Up Denial Up

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.

Vision I Am Think Immigration Stop

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