Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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If you love animals, don't eat them.
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Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done. Brian Tracy
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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
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The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life
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A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
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Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!
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For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
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To Aquinas the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part is the mind ... and its intellectual contemplation.
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Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.
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I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.
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The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
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My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.
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What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.
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You'd be surprised how young 25-year-old girls can sound when they want to scream. It isn't that young an audience, and it really frustrates me when I read the word "prepubescent" in my reviews. Even the ones that started following me with Wham! are in their late teens by now.
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From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.
