Douglas Coupland Quotes

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Douglas Coupland

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• First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Positive
  • Model
  • Try

• If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Stop
  • Passion

• There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Men
  • Help

• We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Goals
  • Strength

• As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Home
  • Job

• It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Past
  • Present
  • They Say

• A library implies an act of faith.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Faith
  • Library
  • Act

• I think confidence is a true form of beauty.

  

  Becky G
  • True
  • Confidence
  • Beauty

• I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Unhappy

• I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • College
  • Band
  • Guitar

• Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure

• Sprache entsteht, wie das Bewußtsein, erst aus dem Bedürfnis, der Notdurft des Verkehrs mit anderen Menschen.

  

  Karl Marx

• The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Country
  • Home

• I loved: and in the morning sky, A magic castle upward grew!

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Morning
  • Magic
  • Sky

• a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People

• The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Today

• When Abu Zubaydah was shown a series of photos of al Qaeda members by Soufan, he identified one of them as the operational commander of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

  

  Peter Bergen

• It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Men
  • Children
  • Strong

• What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

  

  Mary Stuart Masterson
  • People
  • Important
  • Character

• The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Small
  • Serious

• I'm always going to love my father.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Always
  • Going

• I'm my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error... failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually... you roll with the punches.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Boss

• One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

  

  Douglas Coupland