Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes
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A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.
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...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.
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I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?
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I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole.
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Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
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The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives...
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Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.
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I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.
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My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.
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I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.
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Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?
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I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
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18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".
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There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
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Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
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I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.
