Douglas Coupland Quotes

Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.

Douglas Coupland

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• I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Care
  • Chicago

• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Want
  • Actress
  • Only

• I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Shy
  • Shirt

• You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Care
  • Fail

• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Work
  • Great
  • Saying

• My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Man
  • Successful
  • Intelligent

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Towel

• What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Beautiful
  • Way
  • Ideas

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Man

• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Doing
  • Last

• Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Place
  • Guilty
  • Innocence

• It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • People
  • Game
  • Baseball

• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Science
  • Idea
  • Speaking

• In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Ghetto

• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Time
  • Death
  • Eyes

• Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

  

  John Deacon Queen
  • Science
  • Math

• In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Children
  • May
  • Humility

• Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Dark
  • Humanity