Douglas Coupland Quotes
Boomer Envy: Envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by older members of the baby boom generation by virtue of fortunate births.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?
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For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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Boomer Envy: Envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by older members of the baby boom generation by virtue of fortunate births.
