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Doug Coupland's Profile

Brief about Doug Coupland: By info that we know Doug Coupland was born at 1961-12-30. And also Doug Coupland is Canadian Author.

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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Tags: Brain, Thinking, Try

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Tags: Creativity, Fake, Sexual

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Tags: Business, Idea, Past

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Tags: Bad, Good, Time

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Tags: Birthday, Free, Time

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

Tags: Dating, Financial, Speed

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

Tags: Lie, Photo, Tell

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Tags: Big, Failure, Music

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Tags: Bad, Makes, Whole

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Tags: Cry, Life, Lost

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Tags: Feeling, Unique, Uniqueness

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Tags: Courage, Human, Year

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Tags: Change, Happening, Point

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Tags: Count, Start, Weird

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Tags: Book, Giving, Someone

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

Tags: Become, Rich, Unless

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

Tags: Feeling, Knowing, Year

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

Tags: Found, Goes, Place

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

Tags: Attractive, Deep, Within

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

Tags: Again, Fashion, Once
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