Douglas Coupland Quotes

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 30, 1961

Topics

GoodSportsMyselfSmartCollege

Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against Israeli oppression.

Maysoon Zayid

NameChristianYouKnowNothing

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

John Muir

NatureChangeBetterPlaceGoNeed

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Robert Sheckley

ReadingOutsideForeverWellField

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

Angie Everhart

YouSayMoreSeeMentalityGet

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

Michael Apted

ChangeTechnologyBeautifulBetter

Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in - it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.

Ana Ivanovic

MistakeDoingInjuriesPlaceRight

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

John Podesta

WiseBelieveLegalI BelieveHe

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

John Podhoretz

BeginningFashionPresentNowGone

With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

Travis Bradberry

ChangeBelieveProblemsMindsetYou

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

Michael Nutter

ReasonWeaponNo ReasonAutomatic

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

Cory Booker

ThinkMonumentsJustBuiltAny

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

Colin Firth

AgePeopleDoctorBetterLateOut

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