Eric Garcetti Quotes
I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
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I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
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I don't like piano solos.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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There is no such thing as alternative medicine; there are just treatments that work, and those that don’t.
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Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.
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Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.
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I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.
