Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it. It ringed her pupils in rusty starbursts, but she was grinning--this terrible, ferocious grin. It made her look like she wanted to tear someone's throat out.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.
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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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Don't play his game. Play yours.
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I tried to come out of the box and I stumbled a little bit. I kind of tweaked it, but it's OK.
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Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.
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There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want
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Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.
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Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
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Our hope as analysts and investors is that this is the beginning of a process and not isolated cases.
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You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
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When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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For every laugh, there should be a tear.
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Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
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Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it. It ringed her pupils in rusty starbursts, but she was grinning--this terrible, ferocious grin. It made her look like she wanted to tear someone's throat out.
