Chord Overstreet Quotes

I don't want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I don't want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

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• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Simply

• Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • You
  • Alive

• High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • School
  • American
  • High

• I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Choice

• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Reading
  • Animal
  • Almost

• A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Mind
  • Children
  • May

• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Culture
  • Company
  • Limits

• As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Percent

• I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Training
  • Hands
  • Laugh

• Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Good
  • Help
  • Stop

• Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.

  

  Tacitus

• As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hope

• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Covered

• We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Greatness

• Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mankind
  • Invented
  • Atomic Bomb

• I don't want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I don't want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

  

  Chord Overstreet