Xavier Becerra Quotes

I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

Xavier Becerra

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Want
  • Laugh
  • Reaction

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Gun

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Language

• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • World
  • Experience
  • Dream

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Small

• I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Never
  • Expected
  • Campaign

• The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • America
  • Future

• Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Union
  • Dishes
  • Unloved

• I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Loss
  • China
  • Software

• It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Good
  • Blessing
  • Gods

• Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Dirty Feet

• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Mean

• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  

  Edith Durham
  • Fellows
  • Theatrical
  • Hooked

• I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Sacrifice
  • Values
  • Pragmatic