Eli Broad Quotes
People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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I guess I'm concerned that vulgarity has now officially entered the mainstream of our culture, and I think people have to respectfully stand up and say, 'No thanks.'
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I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.
