Brandi Carlile Quotes
When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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It's kinda all about image.
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I was on the cover of French 'Grazia,' which was amazing. It was all over Paris!
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We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.
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Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
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I have a rendezvous with life.
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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
