How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they … - Eli Broad

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Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.

Eli Broad

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

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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.

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Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

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Contemporary art challenges us. . it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

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To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.

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If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

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