Courtney Barnett Quotes
If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
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Gosh, it's so fun to do a movie where there's nothing dark happening in it.
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If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
