Courtney Love Quotes

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

Courtney Love

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Experience
  • Style
  • Boy

• The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Small
  • Growth

• It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • War
  • Germany
  • Defeated

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Women
  • Love
  • Job

• That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Boy

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Band
  • Always
  • Boy

• Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Boy

• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • War
  • Career

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Why
  • Job
  • High

• I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Together
  • Nature

• Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Sometimes we try to justify this unsavory business on the cynical ground that by rationing out the means of violence we can somehow control the world’s violence. The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war?

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Security
  • More
  • Surveillance

• I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • Important
  • Long
  • Experience

• Keep the faith; work hard: practice does make you perfect. Do what you can, and meet the right people to make it work.

  

  Christine Flores
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • School
  • Business

• The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Job
  • War
  • Boy