Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

Carrie Brownstein

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• The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Praise

• I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Popular
  • Fight

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Together

• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Management
  • Go
  • Yale

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

• I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  

  Florence King
  • Home
  • Rather
  • My Own

• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Political
  • Change

• If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Missing

• There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted all over the world - however, other parts of my goals have not been completed.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • World
  • Goals

• The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

  

  Mark Zandi
  • Financial

• I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Funny

• I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

  

  Bella Thorne
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Few people know that President Obama has used drone attacks many times more than Bush ever did. Obama's off the charts in terms of drone attack.

  

  Jonathan Turley
  • People

• I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Way
  • Actors
  • Internet

• I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Ignorance

• When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• I could have been like so many other bloggers or 'influencers' who just have their agent and are more like celebrities, but I've never wanted it to be only like that. Of course, I still want that part in my life, but I also wanted to create a brand.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Life

• The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit....A christian is fearless.

  

  Tertullian
  • Christian
  • Challenges
  • Fearless

• To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Judgment
  • Fearless
  • Curious