Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

Carrie Brownstein

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• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Dream

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Change

• The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Game

• How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book

• The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

  

  Charles Eames
  • Real

• When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Money
  • Wife

• When I work, I like to just kind of stay quiet, stay to myself. I like to walk around a lot and figure out what's gonna happen in the scene and try to get my head straight.

  

  Kenneth Frampton
  • Work
  • Walk
  • Figure Out

• I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • People
  • High
  • Small

• We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Democracy

• The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Time

• When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Comedy
  • Forever
  • Chicago

• I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Education
  • Mentor

• A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

  

  Douglas Hurd

• There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

  

  Chris Jordan

• Since oceans are the life support system of our planet, regulating the climate, providing most of our oxygen and feeding over a billion people, what's bad for oceans is bad for us - very bad.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Water
  • Sound

• If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Fear
  • Trust

• It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • War
  • Stop

• I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Brain