Douglas Coupland Quotes

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Douglas Coupland

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• Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Me
  • Lawyer

• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Right

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Believe
  • She
  • Character

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Two
  • Director

• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Exercise
  • Motherhood
  • Guilt

• I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Real
  • Love

• We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Innocent
  • Privacy

• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Attitude

• People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Happy

• I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Effort
  • Understand
  • Actions

• Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Mind
  • Organization

• Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Love
  • Home

• I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

  

  Tony Hillerman
  • Feels
  • Wind
  • Landscape

• If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

  

  Douglas Coupland