A Quote by Douglas Coupland

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

Douglas Coupland

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Being Likes Nobody

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

Nobody told me that I would be just a player to be exchanged. Nobody likes to be a part of that situation, especially not me.

Bojan Krkic

Truth be told, nobody likes to lose.

Zion Williamson

I was known for being a bit of a clown. I remember my dad got me aside and said, "Just remember, everybody likes a clown, but nobody pays him." I've often been tempted to call him and say, "Remember how you told me...?" "Yeah?" "Yes, they do."

Mel Gibson

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

Ice Cube

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

Zora Neale Hurston

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

Myrtle Reed

Nobody likes to feel like they are being torn apart behind their back.

Camille Grammer

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Rob Sheffield

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Haruki Murakami

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

E. F. Schumacher

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

Timothy Noah

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Matthew Arnold

I know nobody likes practice, nobody enjoys it, but you have to build some type of excitement and expectation and learn something.

Jabari Parker

I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.