Donald Bren Quotes
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
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I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
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The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.
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What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
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There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.
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I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner.
