Donald Bren Quotes
My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller.
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I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
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Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.
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I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is.
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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
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My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.
