Douglas Coupland Quotes

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Increase

• I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Important
  • Live
  • Culture

• I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Rights

• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Genius
  • Push

• I studied Morse code.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Code
  • Studied
  • Morse

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Down

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Moral
  • Courage

• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Football
  • Win

• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Personal

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Sad

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Live
  • Happy

• The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Reality
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Thought
  • Contribution

• Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Black
  • Party
  • Exercise

• You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you think they're going to have a dog temperament in that they're going to run to the door when you get home, lick you on the face and cuddle with you all the time, but cats are not that way.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Time
  • Home
  • Dog

• As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Up
  • Poverty
  • Ignorance

• I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

  

  Douglas Coupland
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