Top 100 Not Ok Quotes
#1. As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.
Jennifer Lopez
#3. I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.
Quentin Tarantino
#4. It is ok if you talk to a rock, but it is not ok if you expect any reply!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. We had to have white people front like the chef and owners. It was not OK for my dad to sell steak, but white people cooking Asian get more attention than the people in Chinatown who actually know what the fuck they're doing.
Eddie Huang
#7. Every time people ask me if I'm okay, it's just a reminder that I'm not OK at all.
Unknown
#8. As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
Daniel H. Wilson
#9. It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.
Mick Cornett
#10. It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.
Greg Behrendt
#11. For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.
Ken Page
#12. It's ok to not be ok, but it's not ok to stay that way.
Perry Noble
#13. We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.
Marianne Williamson
#14. This is the essence of all games. Games are a way of using time for people who cannot bear the stroking starvation of withdrawal and yet whose NOT OK position makes the ultimate form of relatedness, intimacy, impossible.
Thomas A. Harris
#15. What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
Sam Altman
#16. I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.
Tori Amos
#17. With still, underneath, the old respectable-girl-versus-slut thing. It's OK to fuck around if you're a feminist but it's also not OK to fuck around because most guys aren't feminists and won't respect you and won't call you again if you fuck around.
David Foster Wallace
#18. If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.
Meredith Brooks
#19. When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.
Anne Heche
#20. I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
Bono
#21. I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is smoking: When someone lights up around a crowd, people now usually say something. So I don't understand why it's not OK to apply the same logic to other behaviors.
Keli Goff
#22. It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.
John Kessel
#23. When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.
Gia Coppola
#24. I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?
Cheryl Ladd
#25. Everything will be ok in the end, and if it is not ok, it is not the end.
Cassi Ellen
#26. Understanding what you're OK with and what you're not OK with is so important to learn.
Maria Canals Barrera
#27. Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.
Donald Glover
#28. I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls ...
Hiroko Sakai
#29. I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.
Elif Safak
#30. It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.
Christian Kane
#31. Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.
Bob Marley
#32. It's not ok when around 1 million New Zealanders don't vote.
Metiria Turei
#33. It's ok if you can't level up, but It's not ok to level yourself down.
Mohith Agadi
#34. I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#35. Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.
Steve Gleason
#36. I know it will be OK because everything is OK in the end. And if it's not OK, it's not the end.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#37. The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.
Domhnall Gleeson
#38. It's healthy to admit you're not ok. 'It's ok not to be ok' it's brave. But don't let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.
Jessie J.
#39. Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
Bono
#40. It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.
Temple Grandin
#41. No, I'm not ok. But I haven't been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I'm still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.
Clementine Von Radics
#42. Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.
Leona Lewis
#44. Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.
Steve Pavlina
#45. Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.
James Fox
#46. Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.
Steve Gleason
#47. If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?
Stephen King
#48. I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.
Demi Lovato
#49. So let me get this straight. You think it is ok to murder a child in the womb, but it's not ok to kill a serial killer." Debater 2: "That's not what I said. I denounce murder in any form, but abortion is not murder.
Suzanne L. Davis
#50. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."
Hillary Clinton
#51. Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.
Mason Cooley
#52. I have found a way to beat myself
I win by losing, something like that
I'm told that I'm stupid
So ok, I'll be stupid
If I can't register the pain
Then it's not there
I'm not so stupid after all
I'll show them
Henry Rollins
#53. I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'
Harvey Pekar
#54. I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.
Susanne Bier
#55. There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.
Mekhi Phifer
#56. People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
David Mitchell
#57. I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
Kacey Musgraves
#58. The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
Nathan Myhrvold
#59. I am a bit of a goody-goody. Not that there aren't times when I think, I was kind of an (ass) today. I work in a world in which people are really catered to; someone will come up to me and say, "Is it OK if this person's makeup is done before yours for the premiere?"
Jennifer Garner
#60. A person has to live in a house for it not to break down.
Park Gye-Ok
#61. Cool it," cried Olga. "Working hard is what I do! Can't be perfect. Going to school not cheap and what are you doing here, a beauty nobody want. My first year was ok, only five or ten times knocked down, then later more and more. He says I'm no lady and gotta work harder for his dollar.
J.M.K. Walkow
#62. Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.
Dennis Muren
#63. It's when I'm alone that the doubt sets in. It's been that way for years. As long as there are people around, I can pretend that everything's OK. But I need that audience to pretend for, otherwise it doesn't work. Alone, I'm not that easy to fool.
Cat Clarke
#64. It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water - well OK, not people in the developing world.
Avril Lavigne
#65. Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes ...
Neil Gaiman
#66. TEXAN: "Where are you from?" HARVARD STUDENT: "I am from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions." TEXAN: "OK, where are you from, jackass?" - Variation on an old joke
Ammon Shea
#67. I have to relearn how to walk again. It's not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get back on the same page, and remind yourself that it's OK to do this. You've done this before. It's reminding it what it's supposed to do again.
Tony Stewart
#68. What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.
Then they'd come home and take over Earth.
OK, not that.
Orson Scott Card
#69. The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.
Harry Reid
#70. I'm the kind of person that if I'm not getting something that I need from somewhere. I don't cry about it, I'm like OK I'm going to go here and find what I need.
CM Punk
#71. For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every #video, picture, event or show on social media.
On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things all together can help much more than hurt.
Loren Weisman
#72. You know, the Constitution - there's nothing like it. But it doesn't necessarily give us the right to commit suicide as a country, OK? ... We're not gonna allow the people to come into our country ... And if people want to come in, there's gonna be extreme vetting.
Donald Trump
#73. I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.
Jerry Lewis
#74. There are days when I feel confident, and I feel like, 'OK, this outfit looks nice, I look good, I'm in shape.' But I'm never going to walk out the house trying to be sexy, because that to me is cheesy and not attractive.
Shemar Moore
#75. When I write, there are times
not always
when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
Paul McCartney
#76. I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.
Hayley Hasselhoff
#77. I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.
Tippi Hedren
#78. I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.
Rory McIlroy
#79. Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.
Rinku Sen
#80. If you can remain with absolutely nothing to do for even a short period of time - that's a taste of freedom. Being busy is ok, not being busy is also ok. Not caring whether you're busy or not busy is really ok.
Art Hochberg
#81. I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.
Jack Falahee
#82. Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Janis Joplin
#83. Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
Kaley Cuoco
#85. I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
Thom Mayne
#86. I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.
Kelly Cutrone
#87. I was tired," she says. "I made a mistake."
"You're not tired anymore?"
She doesn't say anything. Then she says, "I am. But it's OK.
Emma Donoghue
#89. I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by a saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way.
Peter Pace
#90. OK, I say again, not really understanding what it is I am agreeing to, what it is precisely I am accepting. But I am accepting something. The truth of my circumstances? The reality I have until now avoided? It's much worse than I imagined and also somehow better.
Bill Clegg
#91. As long as I keep moving, I should be OK. As long as I keep the notebook with me, I should stay alive. This is not what I thought life would be like when I turned sweet sixteen.
T.M. Goeglein
#92. I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better.
Rosamund Pike
#93. With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?
David Henry Hwang
#94. I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we go, let's deal with this" because we're not dealing with it. I'm waiting for somebody to write another book but it hasn't happened yet, though I guess mine's only been out for a year and a half.
Brad Warner
#95. My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.
Si Robertson
#96. Somebody showed me a picture of some event I went to back in the day, and I was really going heavy on the turquoise jewelry, and it was not good. I was like, 'OK, I guess that was a phase that needed to happen.'
Camila Alves
#97. Tell me he's not talking to Brandon," Claire said.
"Um ... Ok. He's not talking to Brandon."
"You're lying."
"Yeah. He's talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He's not as stupid as he looks, mostly.
Rachel Caine
#98. Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.
Teresita Sy-Coson
#99. I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK.
Jimmy Carter
#100. I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher standards.
Quentin R. Bufogle
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