Douglas Coupland Quotes

If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm not a wild and crazy person.

Jewel

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I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Jerry Reed

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You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

Jennifer Nettles

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I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty.

Meles Zenawi

GovernmentWarThinkShortPoverty

We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.

Steve Brown

Make It HappenManagerHappenUsWho

Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.

Judi Dench

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It's not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can't fix. You can't fix water shortages. You can't storm a Ministry of the Interior with a cell phone. You can't magically create leaders and institutions overnight. You can't eat it. You can't shield a bullet.

Jared Cohen

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I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

Denis O'Hare

MeThinkThoughtDoingYearYou

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Chris Jordan

CultureThinkAmericanI Think

The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Brian Eno

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Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

August Wilson

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If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

William J. H. Boetcker

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