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.

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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

• Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Change
  • Pain
  • Growth

• 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

• The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Philosophical
  • Plato

• 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

• Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Wisdom

• 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

• Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

  

  Astro Teller
  • World

• 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 never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Women
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• 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

• I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • College
  • Comedy

• 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 spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'

  

  George Packer
  • Time
  • Today
  • Reading

• I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Music
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• 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