Douglas Coupland Quotes
At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?
Quotes to Explore
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
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You just have to live today. And I think one of my New Year's resolutions is definitely trying to stop and live in the moment and cherish it.
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Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
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When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.
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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
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Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)
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At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?
