Douglas Coupland Quotes
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
-
I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
-
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
-
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
-
Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
-
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
-
I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
-
My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
-
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
-
Close friends consider me a literary snob.
-
Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
-
Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
-
It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
-
Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
-
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
-
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
-
We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
-
I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
-
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
-
I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
-
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.
-
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
