Brett Dennen Quotes
The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
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I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.
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My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
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I felt his presence every day, beginning with the first day.
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.
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Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.
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A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.
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Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
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Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.
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I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.
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The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
