Eli Broad Quotes
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
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I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
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I miss the ocean; I miss Fenway.
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Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful.
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
