Brenna Yovanoff Quotes

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

Brenna Yovanoff

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• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Age
  • Dress
  • Appropriate

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • You
  • Period

• I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Book
  • Ambition
  • Publish

• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Creative
  • Others

• I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Product

• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Work
  • Museums
  • Walls

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Nice

• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Small
  • Born

• I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • History
  • See
  • Collaboration

• People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Real

• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Birth
  • Union
  • African

• Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Work

• All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Nature
  • My Life
  • Wicked