Bryan Brown Quotes

You can be a responsible member of the community besides enriching from it.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.

These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward.

Every time I attend a We Day event, I learn something new, and I always feel way more perspective not just for the world I live in, but also the world that's happening around me.

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.