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Douglas Coupland Quotes

In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Broken Happy Free Border Canada

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Joe Frazier

Heart Step Hurt Want Him Watch

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

John Scalzi

Science Humor You Find Heroes Rare

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

John Spratt

Hope Alone American Lesson Go Risk

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

Tori Amos

Time Think Choose Choice Creating

One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

Rupert Friend

Me Cinema First Last Indiana Uncles

No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don't get to do anything you want to. So I'm very optimistic about America.

Mitch McConnell

Personality America You Country Want

If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you're gonna go where all the money is.

Josh Kopelman

Money You Choice Entrepreneur Place

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.

Debra Monk

Funny Business School Start Acting

You have to be super focused when you're boxing. After I've done a few rounds, I feel as if I can conquer the world.

Ciara

World Conquer Feel You I Can Done

When I'm sitting in bed watching 'Chopped' - that Brie I know. But I don't know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she's like.

Brie Larson

People Me Wonder Know Sitting She

We're giving consumers the tools they need to see medical professionals virtually, to Skype with the doctor instead of wait in her office, to self-monitor vital signs, to connect with health-related communities, and to choose physicians based on reliable data about outcomes and cost.

Bruce Broussard

Medical Wait Doctor Tools Data Need

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

Annette Bening

Confidence Feel Someone You Movies