Douglas Coupland Quotes

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Douglas Coupland

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• When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Personality
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• I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Women
  • Children
  • War

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
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• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Philosophy
  • Values
  • Building

• Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Live
  • School
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• I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
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• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Work
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• You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
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• The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time

• Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.

  

  Walter Kohn
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• There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Mind
  • House
  • Doubt

• I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
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• There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Good
  • Culture

• I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
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• I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

  

  Douglas Coupland