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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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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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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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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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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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,First pledge of blithesome May,Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
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I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.
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I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
