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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One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.
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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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Now I may have faith, to make mountains fall. But if I lack love, then I am nothin' at all.
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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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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.
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Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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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.
