Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

Carrie Brownstein

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• I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

  

  Odette Annable
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lift

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Attention
  • Away
  • Acne

• Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Defeat
  • Wants
  • Defending

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Something
  • Will
  • Fail

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Me
  • Action

• The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Photography

• I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
  • Now
  • Foot

• Every season I am inspired by women.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Season

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space

• She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • People
  • Success

• A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Men
  • Spiritual
  • Vision

• By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Money
  • Senator
  • Minimum Wage

• Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Sacrifice
  • Disappointment

• Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Art
  • Energy

• "We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Art
  • Ultimate