I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi. - Eli Broad

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If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

Eli Broad

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

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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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