Douglas Coupland Quotes

You still don't know what you do well.

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• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Work
  • Law

• My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Green

• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Kill

• If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • College
  • Student
  • Tuition

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Career
  • Exploring
  • Hacker

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Always
  • Situation
  • Crisis

• If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Earth
  • Action
  • Alien

• When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Know
  • Chances

• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Organization
  • Ants

• I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • High
  • Never
  • First

• If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Real
  • Want
  • See

• Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Experience
  • You
  • Wanted

• When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• He had noted that with older people. They often try to control younger, more popular and vivacious people; usually due to the fact that they are jealous of the qualities the younger people have and they lack. These inadequacies are disguised with a benign, protective attitude.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Control
  • Attitude

• Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.

  

  Jon Katz
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it's a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.

  

  George Newbern
  • Movie
  • Die

• No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Success
  • Achieve

• Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.

  

  Nell Irvin Painter
  • Intellectual
  • Passionate
  • Uncomfortable

• You still don't know what you do well.

  

  Douglas Coupland