Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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I'm painfully shy.
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Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
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I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
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'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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My friends and my family are such a massive part of my life. My kids are everything.
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The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.
