"I've given up wanting to make a killing……" — Douglas Coupland
"I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho."
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381 Quotes by Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland has 381 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part…
- If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
- All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the…
- You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
- What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
- You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
- If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one…
- Purchased experiences don't count.
- Technology favors horrible people.
- The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
- The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
- I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
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