Douglas Coupland Quotes

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DressWorldMoreAnythingCodeThan

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

Jessica Williams

DailyFeetSittingTallShowSix

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.

Joan Hickson

CharacterBeautifulNeverActJust

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

Jemima Kirke

PeopleMeFindWantTattoosGive

I really feel that a concert is a place where you can bring up topics, and you can actually discuss them and feel them and have a great time.

Ann Wilson

GreatTimeFeelYouPlaceConcert

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LifeLiveSocial MediaMediaFarm

When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

Anand Giridharadas

GodPeopleTreatSayingThinkYou

Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.

Amanda Foreman

GameChanceYouSkillBankAlways

It's not possible to build a piece that stands successfully without talking about its shape. But if you talk too much, you lead people away from the music itself.

Steven Stucky

MusicPeopleTalkingYouToo Much

The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.

Trick Daddy

MoneyMediaYouStopGetGotta

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

Mike Murdock

ProblemsYouCreateWillRemembered

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

Michael Shannon

MyselfI AmPeopleWorldEndYou

I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.

Demian Bichir

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