Douglas Coupland Quotes

You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.

Douglas Coupland

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• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Brain
  • Same
  • Memory

• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Singing

• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • President
  • Here

• We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • People
  • Country
  • Want

• The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • People
  • Blood
  • Immigration

• I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Free
  • Dollar

• In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Action
  • Play
  • Star

• Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • May
  • Many
  • Someday

• Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Rock

• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Fight
  • Self
  • Survival

• One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Company
  • Presence
  • Global

• I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Relationship
  • Jesus
  • Brother

• In baseball, you don't know nothing.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Know
  • Baseball

• I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Like

• If Jesus really were equal with God from “the beginning,” before he came to earth, and he knew it, then surely the Synoptic Gospels would have mentioned this at some point. Wouldn’t that be the most important thing about him? But no, in Matthew, Mark, and Luke he does not talk about himself in this way—nor does he do so in their sources (Q, M, and L).

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Gospels

• In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Hope
  • Politics
  • End

• Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

  

  Samuel Beckett

• I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Many
  • Features
  • Borderline

• You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.

  

  Douglas Coupland