Douglas Coupland Quotes

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

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• We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

  

  Tara Strong
  • Music
  • Scripts
  • Begins

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Want
  • Natural
  • Straight

• There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Stop

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Real
  • Food
  • Community

• I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Love

• I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Like
  • Fans

• In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Me
  • Very

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • People

• Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • World
  • Funny
  • Laughter

• The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • World
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • World
  • Creepy