Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Eli Broad Quotes

Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.

Eli Broad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1933

Topics

Yourself People Me Writing Charity

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Jim Hodges

Work Me Strong My Own Reaction Own

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

John Ashcroft

Nature Freedom Democracy American

Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I'm grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.

Jennette McCurdy

Live Great Grateful Cool Honor Will

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Angelina Jolie

Justice Peace I Am Strong Without

All children of cosmonauts went to one school. We all lived in the same neighborhood, Star City, and all of us, children of cosmonauts, were in the center of attention from the teachers and general inhabitants of the Star City, and so it was difficult in that respect.

Roman Romanenko

Children Respect School City Same

Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.

Martin Van Creveld

War Border Quiet Destruction Been

I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

Johnny Gimble

Music Art Roots Texas Week Play

We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it.

Cory Booker

Best Grandparents Ashamed Inheritance

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Conrad Black

Change History Change The World War

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

Brendon Urie

Think Short Tall Used Being I Think

The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.

Pico Iyer

Time First Time Never First Stepping

We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

Tilman J. Fertitta

Smart I Can Born Way Talents See