Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

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• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Focus

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• 'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Kids
  • motivation

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Best
  • Behavior
  • Blues

• While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Christian

• Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music
  • Attention

• images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Children

• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss

• The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Travel
  • Horse

• There have been plenty of Republican efforts to go to the extreme scandal zone. Impeaching Bill Clinton was a classic example. Fortunately, the Senate had enough sense to acquit Clinton, and the American people were behind him in huge numbers.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • American

• Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

  

  James A. Forbes

• A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

  

  Chanakya
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Night

• My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just 'cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that's obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.

  

  Kehlani
  • She
  • Game
  • Strong

• I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

  

  James Randi
  • Popular

• Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala

• I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Bible

• People who couldn't walk, they'd come in wheelchairs, and he'd make them walk. It's just the power of God. It wasn't my dad; it's what God had instructed my dad to do.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Reality
  • Satisfaction
  • Starving

• The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Challenge
  • Improvising

• I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Records
  • Sounds
  • Delusion

• Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Powerful