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• Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.

  Howard Stern

  Wall, Kids, Vicious

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• It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

  Kristen Stewart

  Be You, Knows

  "Kristen Stewart waxes philosophical in new interviews and clips from 'Yellow Handkerchief'". www.mtv.com. January 28, 2010.

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• The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

  Sharon Stone

  Husband, Doctors, Trying

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• There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

  Susan Sullivan

  Mother, Children, Joy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.

  Marlo Thomas

  Sweet, Children, Simple

  "Seasonal Ingredients: 12 Fresh and Healthy Recipes for Fall" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Order, Would Be

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• You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Business, Lying, Thinking

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• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dog, Wine, Thinking

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• Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.

  Jesse Ventura

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

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• I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Kabbalah, Hitting, Belief

  "Crystal clear" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hurt

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

  Alexander Wang

  Class, Patterns, Taught

  "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011.

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• I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

  Florence Welch

  Names, Long, Mad

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• Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

  Lucinda Williams

  Change, Song, Thinking

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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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• I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Eight, Get Up

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• I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

  Steven Wright

  Trying, Shy, Lines

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• That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

  John Zorn

  Writing, Years, Challenges

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• I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Writing

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• Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Bruises

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• Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

  Ann Brashares

  Fall, Trying, May

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.645, Delacorte Press

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• And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

  John Grisham

  Fighting, People, Drug

  John Grisham (2000). “The Brethren”, Doubleday Books

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• Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

  Sonya Sones

  Mother, Giving, Hiv

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• So Uncle Stuart is marrying that lady? Mom says she's going to be our aunt Amy. She's okay except she would't try any peanut butter M&M chocolate chip fudge cookies. They were good- you ate five, remember? But she said she was on a special diet, and couldn't eat something called carbs. We told her we didn't put any carbs in our cookies, just M&Ms, but she said M&Ms were carbs. Uncle Mitch, what's carbs? Email to Uncle Mitch from Haily and Brittany.

  Meg Cabot

  Mom, Uncles, Aunt

  "Boy Meets Girl". Book by Meg Cabot, January, 2004.

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