Not Okay Quotes - Page 2

• Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.

  Ruben Papian

  Long, Bitterness, Emotion

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• Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.

  Rachel Caine

  Nice, Mikey, Shane

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.244, Penguin

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• That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be expressed, what's okay, what's not okay. And I guess we do live in a place, and have for a long time, where there's more openness and there's more willingness to tolerate different kinds of behavior, but with that comes people creating other rules and other kinds of controls. It's always going to be a question of what's acceptable and what isn't and what's the danger point and what rouses people's contempt and what people are allowed to get away with.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Long, People, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

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• And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.

  Michael Grant

  Boys, Voice, Mouths

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• Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Memories, Moving

  "Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]

  Anne Lamott

  Cancer, Silence, Comfort

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• Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.

  Lauren Conrad

  Fake, Hollywood, Fine

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• It's censorship, really. I don't see why it's not okay for somebody under the age of 17 watch someone smoking when they can watch someone have their brains blown out? My son and I were watching an ad on the television the other day. And it said, "Rated R." He said, "What does 'rated R' mean?" I said, "God, I don't know. You can't watch it unless you're over a certain age."

  Emily Mortimer

  Mean, Son, Smoking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

  David Byrne

  Light, Giving, Photographer

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• Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn't feel exactly right, I don't care. But that is not okay to do in academia - it's not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I've been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia - there's no place for that!

  Elliott Colla

  Writing, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet." We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.

  Patrick Bergin

  Beautiful, Hurt, New York

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• And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.

  Carolyn Hax

  School, Mean, Kids

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.

  Margaret Cho

  Partners, Okay

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• It'll be taught in homes that it's not okay to make fun of a kid because he's gay or it's not okay to make fun of a girl cause she's fat. But that we have been living for so long in a culture where so many people's parents supported those beliefs that there wasn't any infrastructure for children understanding right and wrong in those situations, if that makes sense.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Fun, Children

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think its funny when people say a female rapper is too sexually charged, maybe the way I do it is a little more in your face but that's because I have to be aggressive and masculine to make it in the industry. If I talk about sex blatantly, when the mainstream media says it metaphorically every day, it's not okay? It's hypocritical.

  Iggy Azalea

  Thinking, Rapper, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal... but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen... This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Sex, Crazy

  "Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: ‘It’s Not Okay, It’s A License To Do Things’". Interview with Shane Vander Hart, thinkprogress.org. October 19, 2011.

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• I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said ain't, or something like that.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Over You, Tennessee, Might

  "Reese Witherspoon Dishes on Her Worst Blind Date". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.seventeen.com. December 17, 2010.

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• The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.

  J.R. Ward

  Feet, Jumping, Doors

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.120, Penguin

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• One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

  Tim McGraw

  Men, Domestic Violence, He Man

  "Tim McGraw Standing Up Against Violence", www.nashville.com.

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• I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.

  Charlie Weis

  Games, Losing, Comeback

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• Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, “Identity Thief,” and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right “ism” for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.

  Josh Gad

  Bullying, Thinking, Identity

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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• All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an artistically bankrupt society, and that's not okay. I think there's room for forms of entertainment that are very light and frivolous and fun, but when those forms of entertainment, forms of "art" if you will, become presented as something more than that, and are believed to be something more than that, then we've got a lot of problems.

  Davey Havok

  Art, Fun, Thinking

  "The Skinnie" Magazine, March 2010.

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• If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

  Jodi Picoult

  Empty, Spokes, Okay

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Comic, Okay, Ifs

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