Kurt Cobain Quotes

The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.

Kurt Cobain Nirvana

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• In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • School
  • Done
  • Studying

• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Politics
  • Show

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • People
  • Action
  • Problem

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Done
  • Nice
  • Flowers

• I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Know
  • Model
  • Write

• There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Book
  • Like
  • Better

• I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Never
  • Working
  • Fighter

• I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Friends
  • Actor
  • Said

• The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

  

  Larry Wall

• It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Up

• I expect a judgment. Shortly.

  

  Charles Dickens

• Blue eyes wash off sometimes.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Eyes
  • Blue

• I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Music
  • Different
  • Attitude

• I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

  

  Laurie Holden
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Friendships

• In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Option

• The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • History
  • Struggle

• We pop out at your party, I'm with the gang And it's gon' be a robbery, so tuck ya chain I'm a killer, girl, I'm sorry, but I can't change We ain't aimin' for your body, shots hit your brain

  

  Polo G
  • Brain
  • Gang
  • Pop

• The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana