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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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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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.
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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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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
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I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
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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.
