Douglas Coupland Quotes

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HealthSportsCultureCareYouArts

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Andrei Platonov

PowerForgetOwnMothersStayHere

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

John Paul DeJoria

WorkPhonePersonDoneEverything

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

Robert P. McCulloch

LifeFatherPainMeStrongLoved

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

Matt Groening

GoPlacesAlwaysJustLikeVery

I tend to invest a little more than I should when I do musicals, so it takes a lot out of me and my personal life.

Aneurin Barnard

LifeMePersonalMoreOutLittle

I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.

Ross Bleckner

WalkNightI CanGoSameEat

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce Brothers

LoveSimpleThinkHurtAcceptWorst

It's very stressful being the No. 1 player in the world. You're in the limelight a lot. You've got more things to do when you get to tournaments, more things to do off weeks. But I wouldn't change it in any way because this is exactly where I want to be. I want to try and stay here as long as I can while I can because nothing beats this feeling.

Jason Day

ChangeWorldLongYouFeelingI Can

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

Jason Reitman

KnowWhyDrawnAmCertainly

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Christopher Marlowe

MotherVeinsRhymingWits

You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.

Christine Quinn

TimeBestYouKnowAnswersThing

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

Antonio Tabucchi

OthersAlwaysBeenWriterInterested

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