Brandi Carlile Quotes
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
Quotes to Explore
-
My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
-
A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
-
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
-
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
-
Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
-
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
-
I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
-
If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
-
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
-
The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
-
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
-
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
-
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
-
I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
-
'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
-
People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
-
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
-
I like to do Pilates.
-
Everybody does that now. We all take pics… you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture ‘cause you’re too busy recording it; so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.
-
I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.
-
When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
-
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
-
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
