Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Carrie Brownstein

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• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • You
  • Makeup

• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Growing

• My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Money
  • Home
  • Baseball

• Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Sometimes we'll sigh - sometimes we'll cryAnd we'll know why just you and I know true love ways.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Why
  • True

• I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Never
  • Afraid
  • Issue

• When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Important
  • Person
  • Listening

• My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

  

  Ang Lee
  • America
  • Culture
  • Care

• Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Happy
  • Words
  • Smile

• We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in the next generation of technological innovation. But we can't unleash private capital because of what the government is doing to stifle innovation and to choke competition.

  

  Van Jones
  • World
  • Trying
  • American

• The attorney-client privilege is the bedrock principle of our legal system, ... The confidential nature of the attorney-client relationship is no less important in government than in every other context where it exists.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• Gratitude helps us to return to our natural state of joyfulness, where we notice what's right instead of what's wrong. It makes us feel complete, that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Needs
  • Gratitude
  • Appreciation

• When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here."

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Present
  • Here
  • There

• Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes?

  

  Nick Thune
  • World
  • Cleaner
  • Brooms

• Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

  

  Alex Epstein
  • Life
  • Recognizing
  • Cloning

• Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Selfish

• We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.

  

  S. N. Goenka
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Natural
  • Realness