Eli Broad Quotes
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You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.
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I certainly would not deny that the Tea Party, the issues that they have looked at are certainly important to me as well... debt and deficit and recognition of the Constitution.
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At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.
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The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.
