Courtney Love Quotes

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Story

• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • America
  • Opportunity

• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
  • Fighting

• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
  • Cooperation

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• Politics is a people business. I like people.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Reason
  • Living
  • Cricket

• Thirteen years I took on this last book.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Book
  • Years
  • Last

• Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Sometimes
  • Greed
  • Hatred

• The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • First
  • Last

• Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Light
  • Struggle
  • Angry

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • World
  • Power
  • Bad

• You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

  

  Jonathan Richman
  • Different
  • City

• I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Family
  • Service

• I don't give up. I'm definitely meant to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Cheryl Yeoh
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  • Entrepreneur

• I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

  

  Courtney Love
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