Carrie Brownstein Quotes

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Carrie Brownstein

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MusicMeGuitarExercisePlayThree

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Jeanne Moreau

TimeAgingLookingWorryLookHide

I'm a big 'Breaking Bad' fan - if I'm not in the script, I like to experience the show with the rest of the world. I'm ready to be shocked.

Steven Michael Quezada

ExperienceWorldRestBadReadyBig

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Robert D. Kaplan

HistoryLongYouLookNationEmpire

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

Joseph Pulitzer

FuturePowerHandsWillRepublic

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

Jonathan Carroll

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Aristotle Onassis

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To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

Annabelle Selldorf

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For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.

Peter Singer

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I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

Kyan Douglas

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Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

James Salter

BestBrotherParentsSisterYouMay

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

James Heckman

LifeEducationLiveLive LifePeople

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

Gore Vidal

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