Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

Carrie Brownstein

• Online
• Spontaneous
• Blogging
• Fluidity
• Fandoms

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• I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Exhausted

• I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Like
  • Down
  • Spontaneous

• Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Marketing
  • Online
  • Shop

• When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

  

  Doris Day
  • Record
  • Anything
  • Spontaneous

• I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Fears

• The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Free
  • Simple

• It's challenging to get it to look spontaneous, ... That's tricky to do.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Challenging
  • Spontaneous
  • Tricky

• The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Advantage
  • Online
  • Gambling

• The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Law
  • Running
  • Habit

• I've never done online dating.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Done
  • Dating
  • Online

• If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

  

  David Elkind
  • Children
  • Education
  • Simple

• America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Dream
  • Moving
  • Dangerous

• How do you establish online friends by talking about the weather?

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Friends
  • Online
  • Establish

• It's hard to be spontaneous when you have 40 people in your crew, and you're playing to 16,000 people every night, and there's giant lighting rigs, it's hard to change direction on a dime.

  

  Daniel Quine Auerbach The Arcs
  • People
  • Spontaneous
  • Crew

• I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. I fall in a weird age gap. I was on band message boards when I was 16, but I was on the early curve of Facebook. I did it for work when I worked in media, and I did it for the band, but I can't relate to the idea that you live your life online.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Age
  • Band
  • Purpose

• Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Selling
  • Buying

• The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Goal
  • Building
  • Fiction

• If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Today
  • Speak
  • Instinct

• Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Sleep
  • Body
  • Share

• It's unbelievable even to say the World Series and that we're going right now. So, yeah, I don't know how else to express it. It's a pretty emotional day.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Emotional
  • Going
  • Express

• Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Happy
  • Learn
  • Ignorant

• She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have beguiled Nino: the gratuitousness of Lila's intelligence.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Intelligence
  • Vulgarity
  • Gratuitous

• I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Online
  • Spontaneous
  • Blogging