Douglas Coupland Quotes
The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
Quotes to Explore
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.
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It's very important that people understand that for refugees to come into the USA is very difficult. What upsets me about the whole situation is that people don't know the difference between a migrant and a refugee; they don't have respect for what people are coming from - the people who against it - and they have completely forgotten this is what built our country, the diversity. When it is put forward that masses of people are dangerous, and the actual numbers and the situation are proven to be completely the opposite of the way they're presented publicly, it's horrible.
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It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.
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The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
