Douglas Coupland Quotes

I used to always think I had to have a reason to record my observations of the day, or even my emotions, but now I think simply being alive is more than enough reason.

Douglas Coupland

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• After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Work
  • Great
  • Liberty

• The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • True
  • Identity

• I love trying new restaurants.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Trying
  • Love
  • New

• Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pretty

• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Political

• I don't have a strong interest in history.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History
  • Strong
  • Interest

• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Interested
  • Slickness

• Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Would

• When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Community
  • Worry
  • Blessing

• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I'm a walking, talking enigma.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Talking
  • Enigma

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Change
  • Couple
  • Feel

• To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Why
  • Poverty
  • Promise

• Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.

  

  Douglas R. Oberhelman
  • Country
  • Deep
  • Service

• Hopefully, something starts working out so we can get Patrick some place that he would like. I don't have a time frame on it. We don't feel pressure or anything.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Place
  • Pressure

• Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Done
  • Age
  • Hand

• We're all pleased to put the compliance question behind us. Rather than allow the controversy to continue, we're offering options to resolve the dispute.

  

  Bob Herbold
  • Resolve
  • Dispute
  • Compliance

• I used to always think I had to have a reason to record my observations of the day, or even my emotions, but now I think simply being alive is more than enough reason.

  

  Douglas Coupland