Brandi Carlile Quotes
I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.
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All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
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I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.
