Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Carrie Brownstein

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• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Early

• I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Rock
  • King

• Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Action
  • Enemy
  • Coincidence

• I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Children

• Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm like, 'I don't know if my reality is appealing to a 14-year-old.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Life
  • Writing

• Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Girl
  • Amazing
  • Air

• I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

  

  Mary Leakey
  • School
  • Single

• I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Character
  • Color

• Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
  • People
  • Trump

• We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • People
  • Decision

• I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Dance

• I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

  

  Don Young

• The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith

• My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn't know what was coming in life.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mother

• One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

  

  Alex Kingston
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Running

• It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an artistically bankrupt society, and that's not okay. I think there's room for forms of entertainment that are very light and frivolous and fun, but when those forms of entertainment, forms of "art" if you will, become presented as something more than that, and are believed to be something more than that, then we've got a lot of problems.

  

  David Paden Marchand AFI
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Fun

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

  

  Marguerite Moreau
  • People

• I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Comedy