Douglas Coupland Quotes

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Douglas Coupland

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• I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • Rhythm
  • Editing

• I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Yourself

• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Marketing
  • Treat

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Women
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Important
  • Wisdom

• I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Good
  • Job
  • Ambition

• I see ghosts.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • See
  • Ghosts
  • I See

• That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Nice

• The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Moving
  • Year
  • Paris

• I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Languid

• The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Believe
  • End
  • Opportunities

• As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we're on location and shooting at night, it's just magic. I got to do that so many times working on 'Vampire Diaries' that it filled my hat.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Time
  • Work
  • Night

• The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • Great
  • Important
  • Moments

• I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Road

• We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.

  

  Saeb Erekat
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I always think of myself as a working girl.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Girl

• 'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

  

  Douglas Coupland