Brett Dennen Quotes
When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
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Mostly I play with records. I play with my friend Bill Evans.
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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
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When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.
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When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.
