Eli Broad Quotes
Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.
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Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.
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I'd like someone who challenges me, someone who is more beautiful in the inside than they are on the outside.
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I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.
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Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.
