Courtney Barnett Quotes
You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude.
Quotes to Explore
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought the manuscript was in great shape; I was pretty proud of myself. Then I sent it to some publishing friends, and they tore it apart.
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If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
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You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude.
