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.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Quality
  • Answer
  • Improve

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • May
  • House
  • Friend

• 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.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Me
  • Angry
  • Pleasure

• Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Chance
  • Same

• As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Live
  • Forever

• I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Colm Feore
  • Running
  • Text

• You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • House

• The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.

  

  Doc Watson

• I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • Why
  • Business
  • American

• I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Dream
  • Food
  • Wishes

• My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.

  

  Kelly Wearstler

• There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Empty

• Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Work
  • Great
  • Confidence

• I'm trying to get into the best shape of my life for 40.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Life
  • Trying

• Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • People
  • Good
  • Administration

• After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry.

  

  Paul Heyse
  • Poetry
  • Gymnasium
  • Philology

• 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.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Kids
  • Chance
  • Separated