Eli Broad Quotes

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

I grew up in a very liberal place.

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.

I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It's almost like it's a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'