Douglas Coupland Quotes

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NatureManFenceYouDownNothing

That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.

Jim James

FunnyMusicMyselfPeopleCriticism

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

Joaquin Phoenix

MyselfThinkYouKnowRightWell

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Joe E. Lewis

FriendManYouDangerousWantHim

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Jhumpa Lahiri

ArchitectureSchoolWonderWhyWrite

I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.

Jeffrey Zeldman

WorkLovePeaceDemocracyWorldNew

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.

John Hutton

GoalsBusinessPastEasyMeetOrder

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

Robert Giroux

GoodYouKnowPoetsManyReaders

The liberal entertainment industry is a fickle world. So it's about living in the moment, and it's about being clear with it and understanding that this is another opportunity to step up the staircase a little bit and create some newer opportunities and get involved in some other projects, as well as possibly creating your own.

John Pyper-Ferguson

OpportunityMomentStepWorldCreate

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Sidney Blumenthal

GrowthGovernmentYouFallCreate

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

Michael Newdow

GodGovernmentChooseDownBelieving

I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.

Janet Varney

AgingYearWantWaySheJust

I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.

Donald Trump, Jr.

CityGrowing UpGrowingWantUp

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