Daniel Dewan Sewell (Danny Brown) Quotes

There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

Daniel Dewan Sewell

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• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War

• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • High
  • Small

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Truth
  • High
  • Judge

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Me

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I think the root of minor problems is separation from a belief system of interconnectedness and compassion and oneness, so when we multiply that over and over again, it turns into lies and chaos and terrorism.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Lies
  • Compassion
  • Chaos

• Part of courage is simple consistency.

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Simple
  • Courage
  • Consistency

• My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

  

  John Burnside
  • Country
  • Advice

• I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• My friends: let us have faith in each other. Let us not grow weary.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Friends
  • Faith

• There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music