Eli Broad Quotes
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	Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.   
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	It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.   
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	I was a tomboy.   
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	I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.   
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	Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!   
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	The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.   
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	Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.   
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	I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.   
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	I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.   
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	I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'   
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	Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.   
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	It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.   
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	I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.   
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	When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.   
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	I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.   
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	Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.   
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	Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.   
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	The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.   
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	A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.   
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	Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.   
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	Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.   
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	The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.   
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	All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.   
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	A real collector does not sell.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					