Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.
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My parents, I've always said, are two of the hardest working people I know.
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.
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I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.
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I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
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In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well, more and more, it seems like it matters.
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He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
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I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
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Everything in life involves choice.
