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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The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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I was proud of how our guys bounced back.
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I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.
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I walked on the Moon. What can’t you do?
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You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude.
