Eli Broad Quotes

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

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• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Small
  • Team
  • Basketball

• I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Player
  • Never
  • Shoe

• I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Feminist

• Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Needs

• I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Work
  • Home
  • Sure

• Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • War
  • Organization

• In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• There's nothing more human than two people making love.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Relationship
  • Perfection

• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Thought
  • U.S.

• So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• God is a verb, not a noun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Verb
  • Noun

• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Art
  • Man

• Oh, the cat I worked with on 'Game of Thrones' was so badly behaved! It would never do anything it was supposed to do. I was like, 'Get your game together, cat. You're so bad.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Bad
  • Together
  • Game

• It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Philosophy
  • Knowing
  • Limits

• The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

  

  Edward Abbey

• You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Love

• I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Work
  • Like
  • Show

• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Singing
  • Never

• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
  • Men
  • Death

• In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Learning
  • Safety

• Collecting is more than just buying objects.

  

  Eli Broad