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

• It doesn't take a lot of research to realize that the human eye is drawn to attractive things. So the better looking your LinkedIn profile is - meaning professional and complete - the more qualified you'll appear to your audience and the more interested people will be to check out your site.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • People
  • Professional

• 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

• The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Important
  • Understanding
  • Perspective

• 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

• Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

  

  Amy Vanderbilt
  • Grace
  • Comfortable
  • Flout

• You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • History
  • Understanding

• Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Thinking
  • New York
  • Everyone

• 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