Douglas Coupland Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
-
It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
-
When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
-
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
-
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
-
The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
-
The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
-
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
-
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
-
Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
-
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
-
Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
-
I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
-
I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
-
Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.
-
When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.
-
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
-
We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
-
The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
-
The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.
