Douglas Coupland Quotes

Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.

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• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Fall

• When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Day
  • Problems
  • Inspire

• The first president I met was L. B. J.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • President
  • First
  • Met

• People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

  

  Yuna
  • Free
  • Proud
  • Choice

• Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Very
  • Matters
  • Pass

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Different
  • Important
  • Building

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Down
  • Dirty

• People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Technology

• All our wives are experimental psychologists.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Our
  • Wives
  • Experimental

• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Policy
  • Buildings

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Everything
  • Media
  • Turn

• I just feel we are extremely lucky that when we wake up, we get to go to work and do something we love. Honestly, we can't call it work. We're living the dream, really. If you start thinking about the dangers too much, it's time to stop.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

  

  Jonathan Carroll
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• This work thing really has a specific purpose for me, which is to be an independent human being who doesn't rely on a guy or a family to be able to support myself. It's not about showing somebody that I'm successful. It's about having a wider breadth of option.

  

  Alexa Hirschfeld
  • Work
  • Family
  • Guy

• Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

  

  Elsa Maxwell
  • Walking

• The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Family
  • She
  • Car

• Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Money
  • Community