Brett Dennen Quotes
It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
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Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.
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I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere.
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As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
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I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.
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I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.
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You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.
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The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.
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Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Run while you still have the chance.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.
