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 still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

  

  Ellen Hopkins
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Pain

• Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I lot of people remember when that kid spray-painted my brand new Porsche for Punk'd. That was pretty funny. He got me pretty good. Of course, most people don't know I eventually got him back with my own show. I call it a show, really it's just an hour-long video shot in my bedroom featuring the two of us.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Compassion

• 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