"Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling."

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Source : "A Final Word From Carrie Brownstein". NPR "Monitor Mix" column by Carrie Brownstein, www.npr.org. October 6, 2010.

Carrie Brownstein

#Hands Quotes #Years Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.12, Oxford University Press
“I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro AlmodÃ³var, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.”
“Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.”
“You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.”
“People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.”

Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.34, Vintage
“Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.”
“It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks are done. The fact is you're still just another slack-jawed mark in the audience. No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.”
“Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'”

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