Douglas Coupland Quotes

The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeGoodCreativityWake UpMy Life

We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes under all sorts of names - liberals, leftists, etc. These are the people who argue that they are not responsible for white racism and the country's 'inhumanity to the black man.'

Steven Biko

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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Mike Tyson

CharacterMeSeePatheticSomeSort

When my grandfather died, I was on tour, and I didn't go to the funeral. I never got to say goodbye, and this is one of the problems of being in a rock band is that you're away, and your loved ones die, and you can't even see them.

Dolores O'Riordan

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I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Courteney Cox

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I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it.

Claire Danes

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To me, there are certain things you lay claim to proudly and others you hope the people look over them, and for me, the NWA title throwdown is something that I wear like a badge of honor and what we did and what it achieved for ECW at the time, and ultimately we failed, but damn, we came close to grabbing those keys to the kingdom.

Shane Douglas

HopeTimePeopleMeHonorLook

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

Mario Balotelli

LoveHatePeopleMeLove MeKnow

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

Lena Headey

I AmWildernessYearNowNextAware

Luckily, for me, my first producer Sajid Nadiadwala treats both Tiger Shroff and me like his kids. He's very protective.

Kriti Sanon

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Most sports federations, corporations, and governments don't change voluntarily. Change is brought by the disenfranchised demanding better.

Julie Foudy

ChangeSportsBetterMostDemanding

Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.

Julian Barratt

MeAnythingSport

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

James Longstreet

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