Courtney Thorne-Smith Quotes

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

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• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Great
  • Everyday

• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Great
  • Money
  • Think

• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Like
  • Model
  • Role

• Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.

  

  Victor Oladipo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Chance

• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Forever

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • People
  • Know
  • Start

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Glorification

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Gay

• The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Women
  • Society
  • Army

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Long
  • Depression

• I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Despair

• Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Art
  • Way

• Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Men

• One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

  

  Courtney Thorne-Smith
  • People
  • Hair