Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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I grew up admiring Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush, and if I were old enough, I would have voted for 41. I was glad he won.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.
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People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.
