Brett Dennen Quotes

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

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• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Kid

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Know
  • Funny
  • Day

• I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • Him

• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Find
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Race
  • Nation
  • Class

• My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Father
  • Best
  • Chemistry

• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Long
  • Family
  • Together

• I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Regulation
  • Gases

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Words
  • Change

• Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • English
  • Blonde

• It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Better
  • Injustice

• I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • I Believe

• I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Peace
  • Chaos

• I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Respect

• Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Sound

• We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Work
  • Model

• I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.

  

  Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • Work
  • Long

• I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Game
  • Thought
  • Morals

• I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Work
  • Write
  • Songs