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.

Brett Dennen

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• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• 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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Pleasure
  • Nonfiction
  • Exclusively

• Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Giving
  • Enough
  • Fortune

• 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.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • More
  • Now
  • Almost

• Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Rules
  • Looking
  • Limits

• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • America
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Real
  • Song
  • Singing

• Idling is not my strong suit.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Strong
  • Suit
  • Idling

• Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • Hell
  • Paradise

• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Look
  • Relationships
  • Seeing

• 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.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Roots

• 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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Live
  • Door
  • Step

• I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Why
  • Playing
  • Hardest

• Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • End
  • Police

• Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Country
  • Destiny

• I still consider myself to be introverted, but everyone has a side of themselves that is amplified. Performers have to learn to tap into that, even if it's not natural.

  

  Jon Batiste

• Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Believe

• I wouldn't want to do anything like 'Minecraft' again, where it's, like, an on-going thing, and there are customers I have to keep happy.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Happy

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.

  

  Kathe Koja
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Kids
  • Bold
  • Change The World