Douglas Coupland Quotes

What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?

Douglas Coupland

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• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• You don't have to get it right the first time.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Time
  • You
  • First

• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Know
  • More

• Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Clever
  • Bore

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fall

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Character
  • Man
  • Moment

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Look
  • Part
  • Fabulous

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Director

• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Good
  • Words

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  

  Vash Young
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Breakfast

• The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Mind
  • Intellectual
  • Skins

• We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

  

  Judith Wright
  • Life
  • Growth
  • Stand

• Anyone who disagrees with radical Islamic propaganda is being attacked in the media, on college campuses, and at rallies countering events that promote the Islamic cause...

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • Media
  • College campuses
  • Radical Islamic propaganda

• What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life