Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
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When I don't have red, I use blue.
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Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.
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When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
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I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
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I just walk funny.
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What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
