Courtney Barnett Quotes
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
Caitlin Moran -
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Larry Flynt -
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
Ralph Norman -
A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
Maika Monroe -
Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
Gabrielle Giffords -
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
Oprah Winfrey
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There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
Ice Cube -
Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
Maggie Stiefvater -
If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
Rachel Sklar -
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
Orlando Bloom
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
Wendy Hiller -
In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
Eduardo Chillida -
Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
Edna O'Brien -
I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
Linus Torvalds -
It takes a long time for an idea to strike.
Edward Hopper -
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
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A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.
Donna Brazile -
I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
While our nation's attention is rightly focused on the Middle East, the North Korean threat has grown exponentially, while there seems to be a falling asleep, so to speak, at the switch when it comes to North Korea.
Cory Gardner -
I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.
Peter Facinelli -
I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.
Genevieve Gorder -
Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.
Courtney Barnett