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

• There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'

  

  Charlie Munger
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Dark

• We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Family
  • Done
  • Kids

• Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Suicide

• 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