Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I am not honest.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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I like to eat. I'm always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too – you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.
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The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'
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Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
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The labor movement is a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves...
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in the private market, are not only kidding themselves by ignoring the taxes that government has to take from them in order to give them the appearance of something for nothing.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.
