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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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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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
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Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.
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My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of accelerated weathering.
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A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
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If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
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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.
