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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• Meaningful

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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 mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Beauty
  • Point

• Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.

  

  Edgar Cayce

• 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

• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• 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 was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Lost

• It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means something.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Life
  • College
  • Rest

• 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

• In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Country
  • Challenge

• I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Computer

• 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