Brandi Carlile Quotes
I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.
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My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
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I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
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If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.
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I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge.
