Cate Tiernan (Gabrielle Charbonnet) Quotes

Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

Cate Tiernan

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• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Optimist

• Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Peace
  • Better
  • Nothing

• It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Experience
  • Better
  • Movies

• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Better
  • Animals

• I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Better

• When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Believe
  • Stupid
  • Choice

• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Like
  • Better
  • Better Things

• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Work
  • Control
  • Better

• It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Better

• As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Live
  • High
  • Age

• I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stupid

• To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Stupid

• In Romanticism, unlike the Renaissance, Amazons retain their power. Rousseau wants it both ways. Idolizing women is natural and right, a cosmic law. On the other hand, male recessiveness is blamed on female coercion. Either way, sadomasochistic dominance and submission are inherent in Rousseausism from the start.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Power
  • Law

• I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.

  

  Desiree Rogers

• It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • Why
  • Information

• Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Stupid
  • Better
  • Safe