Douglas Coupland Quotes

There was a fifteen-second patch of silence, then Craig said, 'Isn't it weird that Hotmail accounts still exist?' 'It really is,' said Bev. (p. 222)

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• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • History
  • Present
  • Honesty

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Work
  • Always
  • Listen

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Contact

• It's kinda all about image.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Image
  • About
  • Kinda

• You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.

  

  Nas
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Rap

• A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Love
  • Yourself

• Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Laws
  • Judges

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • House

• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Night
  • Light

• There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

  

  Nell Hudson
  • Life
  • Weird
  • Certain

• The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.

  

  Andrew Yan

• People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

  

  Andre Carson
  • People

• Unconditional love is hard to compete with.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Compete
  • Unconditional Love

• There was a fifteen-second patch of silence, then Craig said, 'Isn't it weird that Hotmail accounts still exist?' 'It really is,' said Bev. (p. 222)

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Weird
  • Silence