Eli Broad Quotes

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.

Eli Broad

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I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

Jimmy Iovine

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That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

Jenny Holzer

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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.

Andre Aciman

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We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

John Howard

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Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius.

Michael Eric Dyson

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With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.

Amy Gerstler

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I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.

Dick Van Dyke

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I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.

Claire Tomalin

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Family is my fun.

Brad Garlinghouse

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The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman, so if you're ever watching TV late at night, you'll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater.

Ashley Tisdale

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I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

William Gibson

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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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