Douglas Coupland Quotes

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

Douglas Coupland

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• I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Mind
  • Understand
  • Nobody

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Today
  • Desire

• If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Write
  • Say

• I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Golf

• I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Hi

• Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Wonder

• Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Panacea

• We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Humanity
  • Win
  • Battle

• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Succeeded

• When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Book
  • Like
  • Teacher

• For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Choice
  • Word
  • Will

• Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind, and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming - he never acted as if he was powerful or famous.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Man

• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Week

• The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Life
  • Years
  • Period

• Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Science

• Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Heart
  • May
  • Pain

• I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Always
  • Because
  • Looking

• I'm competitive – that's what defines me – and I love it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Love
  • Me
  • Competitive

• Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I think Alice Cooper probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Self-destructive
  • Alice Cooper
  • People`s lives

• I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

  

  Douglas Coupland