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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• Change The World

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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

• People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • You
  • Broken

• Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Women
  • America

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

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Why
  • Playing
  • Hardest

• The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

  

  Emmanuel Lewis
  • House

• I'm aware, as I get older, there are less and less stories that really pertain to me and who I am and where I'm going.

  

  Marianne Elliott

• I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.

  

  George Singleton
  • Build
  • Taxes
  • Smoke

• My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Human

• I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• 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