Kurt Cobain Quotes

Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.

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• A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Want
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Man
  • Son

• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Sleep
  • Busy

• From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Chance
  • Financial
  • Equal

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Free
  • Problems

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Rest
  • California
  • Nation

• I got 220,000 votes from people who also voted for Donald Trump. I did not do that by pretending to be a conservative Democrat.

  

  Jason Kander
  • People
  • Trump

• Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Pretty
  • Sex
  • Scary

• Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Life
  • Time
  • Sun

• I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • God
  • Traitor

• When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Potatoes
  • Chips

• Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Basketball