Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

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• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Running
  • Run

• Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  

  Little Richard
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Hate

• I make the girls jump like I'm Kris Kross

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Jump
  • Bragging

• When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Up
  • Women
  • Together

• I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Rely

• Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Money
  • Mother

• Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Forever
  • inspirational

• I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

  

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
  • Door

• I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Marriage

• America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Morning
  • Singing

• Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Office

• The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

  

  Paul Merton
  • Funny
  • Victim
  • Amazed

• When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean.

  

  Nathan Englander
  • Mean
  • Editor
  • Permutations

• For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Mean
  • Optimism
  • Cynicism