Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.

Carrie Brownstein

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• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • My Life

• As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mind
  • Fight
  • Everything

• There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Weekend
  • Ranch

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
  • English
  • Learn

• I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Moment

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Street
  • Halloween
  • Nightmare

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Person
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fashion
  • Secret
  • Hollywood

• Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Strong
  • Commitment
  • Florida

• Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Job
  • True
  • Friend

• Die Antwoord is super pop. It's a pop music.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Die
  • Pop Music

• There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Reading
  • Certain
  • Crisis

• Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Fun
  • You
  • Some

• In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Song
  • Me
  • Stop

• I tell myself things will be different in a few years' time, but this is the most wonderful, golden time for me. I'm basking in the success of 'Tango', really loving it.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Time
  • Different
  • Success

• Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Know
  • Violets
  • Theats

• Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Up
  • Why
  • Kids

• The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • World
  • Animal
  • Inspiration