Douglas Coupland Quotes

Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Darius Rucker is straight up the most charming, handsome man you have ever met in your entire life.

Jessica St. Clair

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What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.

Max Landis

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The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

John Lewis Gaddis

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God often gives nuts to toothless people.

Matt Groening

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You did not disturb Hemingway before noon on Monday through Friday - he was in his office, writing the books that made the lifestyle possible.

Michael Gerber

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I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'

Stephanie Zimbalist

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I'm really glad to have become a Russian citizen. Russia's such a welcoming country, and many people in the world want to become her citizens.

Roy Jones Jr.

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The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

Michael Ovitz

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More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking.

Josh Hawley

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I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Diane Lane

HappinessSoulThinkYouWaySecret

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Chris Bohjalian

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It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from 'Glee,' from something of a different tone.

Cory Monteith

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