Kurt Cobain Quotes

They're claiming that the grunge bands finally put Seattle on the map, but, like, what map? ...I mean, we had Jimi Hendrix. Heck, what more do we want?

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• I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Children

• Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fall

• Say not the struggle nought availeth,The labour and the wounds are vain,The enemy faints not, nor faileth,And as things have been, things remain.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Struggle
  • Enemy

• I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

  

  Alan Ball
  • World

• Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Faith
  • Law

• I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Happy

• I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Amazing

• I'm super girly and like to wear skirts and dresses all the time.

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Time
  • Girly

• I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Support
  • Health
  • Party

• With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

  

  Paullina Simons
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Management

• On Warped Tour in Boise, Idaho, I broke my tooth on the mic. I took a pretty significant chunk out of my tooth and had to have it sanded down. It wasn't the most painful injury, but it was the most unexpected one.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Pretty

• The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Food

• There's a lot of criticism on how an actress is aging. Why do we do that with women? I work with a lot of men who take terrible care of themselves - they drink too much, or they eat too much. We need to allow women to age.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• You can only make money doing what you love.

  

  James Altucher
  • Money

• In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Long
  • Job
  • Path

• I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

  

  Charles Portis
  • Attention

• The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is 'Good without a God,' created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular Humanists to raise awareness about government threats to religious liberty and up the profile of the non-religious community.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Up

• Science is a highly technical and intellectual endeavor. Any theory or fact or discovery has an ocean of depth to it. You can always go deeper with science, and you can always ask a new and interesting question. That's what makes a topic nerdy: depth.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Question

• Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Kids
  • Grunge

• I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Up
  • Music
  • Grunge

• They're claiming that the grunge bands finally put Seattle on the map, but, like, what map? ...I mean, we had Jimi Hendrix. Heck, what more do we want?

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Grunge