Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
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My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
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I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
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When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.
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This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.
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We will win again in Iraq; I do think that Iraq can definitely be handled. I think that it can be kept intact.
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I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
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I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
