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.
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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.
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'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.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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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.
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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
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I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.
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Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue.
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When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
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I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.
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I make music to make you sick of fake music - hate music like devil worshippin' Satan music. So say your prayers - your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.
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The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.
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If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.
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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.
