Douglas Coupland Quotes

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.

Douglas Coupland

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• I believe that dogma is often evil.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Often

• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Animal

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • America
  • Freedom

• All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Saying

• I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Artist
  • First
  • Portrait

• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• I rode horses since I was a kid.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Kid
  • Horses
  • Since

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Choice

• 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

• A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Dark
  • Survive
  • Hold

• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Quality

• I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • People

• I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking