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Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

~Eli Broad

Topics: America Any Built City Get Like Museum Pay Would

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I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

~Eli Broad

Topics: Am America Best Credit Detroit Enough Graduate Learned Michigan Much Old Old Enough Proud Public Public Schools Remember Remember When Schools State State University Success Them University Were World I Am K-12

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In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

~Eli Broad

Topics: Accomplished America Financially Like Measurement Whether You

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Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

~Eli Broad

Topics: America Bringing Critical Education Most New Provides Public Public Education Talent Teach

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My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: America Became Born Country Medical Medical School Met Moved Parents Professors Researchers School Secular Top Turkey Were

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My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents' education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Age America Comparison Corpses Did Educated Education Envied Everything Grade Growing Growing Up Had High High School Medical Medical School Mom Parents School Seemed Seventeen Sort Straight System Think Turkish Up Were Who I Think

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Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

~Eliot Engel

Topics: Allow Alone America Any Corner Discrimination Intolerance Our Our World Small States Thrive Too United United States United States Of America World

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As someone who attended six different public schools across America, went to Harvard, and subsequently became a tutor in Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side, I've witnessed firsthand the differences in learning styles between public school educations and private.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Across Affluent America Attended Became Between Differences Different East East Side Educations Firsthand Harvard Learning Manhattan Private Public Public School Public Schools School Schools Side Six Someone Styles Subsequently Tutor Upper Who Witnessed

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In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

~Eliot Spitzer

Topics: Adult America Exclusive Growing Inclusive Melting Melting Pot Minorities Politics Pot Rapidly Single Smart Voting Whether Women Young Young Adults

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I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.

~Eliza Coupe

Topics: Actually America Because Bill China Chinese Comedy Daniel Doing Female Film Found Funny Had Indie Later Lead Little Out Romantic Romantic Comedy Shanghai Shot Speak Then Town Week

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