Douglas Coupland Quotes
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.
Quotes to Explore
-
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
-
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
-
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
-
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
-
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
-
Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
-
It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
-
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
-
The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
-
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
-
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
-
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
-
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
-
It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
-
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
-
I hate knowing where people go to the bathroom. You follow them going to pee, to eat - I hate everything when it comes to reality shows!
-
Vigorous writing is concise.
-
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
-
Told a lot of stories as a child. Not 'Once upon a time' stories but, basically, outright lies. I loved lying and getting away with it!
-
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.
