Eli Broad Quotes
I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.
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I put my heart into this. Like, winning to me is, I make it life or death.
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Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!
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I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
