Douglas Coupland Quotes

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StupidityNowNeverMentalBeen

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.

Matt Groening

FamilyFatherAdventureBrother

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

Angus Young

WorkAttitudeMusicCountryNothing

Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.

Sia

Keep GoingYourselfDisappointmentUp

Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

Tristram Stuart

FoodMeThoughtBackWantTalk

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

Mathieu Amalric

FirstDirectorStartedFilmWorking

I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe.

Mary H.K. Choi

LoveScienceBelieveWantMoreLike

The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall.

Derek Hough

MeCrazyStartKeySillyWall

There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while.

Debra Granik

AmericanQuestionsCreateKnowAsk

I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

Cher

CrazyStupidImportantTalkThings

One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.

Coy Bowles

GuitarMusiciansGuyPlayersNamed

I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the mix of those two huge influences have been very, very important to me.

Anna Wintour

FamilyMotherMeThinkImportantUp

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Ally Condie

FindOutOtherTeensLot

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