Donald Bren Quotes
Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that. Here I am. I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that. Here I am. I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.
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You were not put on this earth to do everything to be sexually appealing to people.
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I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on Bashar Assad and on the Iraqis and on the region itself.
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Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.
