Brett Dennen Quotes
I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.
Quotes to Explore
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.
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As in EMDR the resolution of the trauma was the result of her ability to access her imagination and rework the scenes in which she had become frozen so long ago.
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I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
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I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.
