Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as easy as it's ever been, for many, many people, and the amount of physical exertion, for most people, is less than it's ever been. I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.

Carrie Brownstein

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• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I love being in a courtroom.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Love
  • Being
  • Courtroom

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Taken

• My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • School
  • Happy

• You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

  

  James Cameron
  • Business

• At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Waking

• I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Education
  • Mentor

• I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

  

  Mayim Bialik

• Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Time
  • Freedom

• The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • Life
  • History
  • Acceptance

• The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • World
  • Black

• because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Star

• Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

  

  Uesugi Kenshin

• The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding - the bright hope of good things to come - the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us - the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen - these are true gold, and lasting riches.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

  

  Heather Dubrow
  • Truth
  • Fiction
  • Reality TV

• Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Together
  • Common
  • Mankind

• I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Respect

• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Moving

• I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as easy as it's ever been, for many, many people, and the amount of physical exertion, for most people, is less than it's ever been. I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Struggle
  • Meaningful