Brandi Carlile Quotes

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Brandi Carlile

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• If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.

  

  Zendaya
  • You
  • Fan
  • Oakland

• It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • American
  • Black

• I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Father
  • Strong
  • Stand

• You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• I'm interested in playing, not working.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Working
  • Playing
  • Interested

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Live
  • Positive

• High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • School
  • American
  • High

• It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deep
  • Run
  • Resentment

• To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

  

  Gallagher
  • Responsibility
  • Audience

• I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Religion

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• I don't like people who are just takers.

  

  Elle King
  • People

• I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Choices
  • Adoption

• I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do.

  

  Brad Williams
  • People
  • I Hate
  • Dwarves

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Religion
  • Meditation

• Mr Liversedge...saw the whole ridiculous Oriental susah in true proportion. Here men would murder for five dollars, here men would seek divorce because their wives sighed at the handsomeness of the film star P.Ramlee....nodding at the lucid exposition of Mr Lim from Penang, though contemning inwardly the Pommie accent...

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Men
  • True
  • Star

• Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Singing
  • Meditation