Brett Dennen Quotes
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
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You should never turn your back on the market that gave you notoriety and be who you are and give you the numbers it gives you in the United States. I can't deny that the success I've had in the United States or the success that 'Pulling Strings' was due to my work in Latin America.
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In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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I'm not really a popular fan of the whole Hall of Fame thing. I've had a lot of ups and downs, and I don't feel deserving a lot of times.
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
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The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
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It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means something.
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If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a young mogul. I'm blessed.
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People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
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I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.
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Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.
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The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.
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I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
