Douglas Coupland Quotes

Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

Douglas Coupland

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• Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Know

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dress

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Who
  • Travels

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Think
  • Myself
  • I Think

• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Sun

• Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Money
  • Blue

• I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Transformation
  • Busy

• Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Moment

• It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Something
  • Away
  • Arts

• I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Want
  • Never
  • Size

• We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Done
  • Job

• I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Me
  • Lying

• A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Truth

• What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Control

• Parents, family, and friends tell you that you can be whatever you want to be. But what they really mean is whatever you want as long as it fits in their neat, little box. And for a woman exercising her command, that box is restrictive as hell. Destroy that box and the horse it rode in on. Light it on fire for good measure. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  

  Amerie
  • Want
  • To Be
  • Sure

• I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.

  

  John Simm
  • Live
  • Country
  • Home

• Under our stable and committed ownership, PartnerRe will continue to develop as a leading independent global reinsurer.

  

  John Elkann
  • Independent

• Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

  

  Douglas Coupland