Brandi Carlile Quotes

I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

Brandi Carlile

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• I never left doo wop.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Left

• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Strange
  • Places
  • Far

• If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • You
  • Will
  • Intellectual

• I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Me

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Done
  • Goals

• Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • See
  • Trials
  • Incentives

• I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Information

• We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Good
  • Work
  • Help

• There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Wish

• I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Moon
  • Lonely

• My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Father

• We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Normal

• I'm not an everyday fragrance person usually. I wouldn't put fragrance on before dropping off my kids or going to the gym.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Kids
  • Everyday
  • Gym

• How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Political

• I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Kids
  • Gay