Douglas Coupland Quotes

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

Jim Carter

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I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.

Jimmy Page

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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

John Buchan

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I am not a professional politician.

John Delaney

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The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.

Meir Kahane

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Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

John Sergeant Wise

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Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.

Stefan Persson

FashionFamousThingsSwedenMany

In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story.

Stephen Graham Jones

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Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Roger Staubach

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I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.

Johnny Weir

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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