Courtney Barnett Quotes
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.
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I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
