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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Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.
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You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude.
