Douglas Coupland Quotes

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

Douglas Coupland

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• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Color
  • Filmmaker

• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • College
  • Play
  • Football

• I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Days
  • April
  • Along

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Change
  • Grief

• We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Like
  • First
  • Felt

• It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Often
  • Fooled

• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Sex
  • Years

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Know

• We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Up
  • Important
  • Meetings

• It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • True
  • Know

• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • End
  • Work Ethic

• I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Think
  • Disaster

• I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Love
  • You

• You learn the hard way. That's the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they're doing.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Learn
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• Everything is dead while it lives.

  

  Egon Schiele

• You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Character

• Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Good
  • Cute

• In the end, as much as the responsibility seems to lie with Beijing, it also lies with the global consumer. Our appetite for the $30 DVD player and the $3 T-shirt helps keep jewelry factories filled with dust, illegal mines open and 16-year-olds working past midnight. We all pay the China price.

  

  Alexandra Harney
  • Responsibility
  • Price
  • China

• We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

  

  Anna Lindh
  • Together
  • Community

• Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

  

  Douglas Coupland