Eric Garcetti Quotes

Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.

Eric Garcetti

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• I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Los Angeles

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Los Angeles

• I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Los Angeles
  • Los

• Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Nation
  • Immigrants
  • Our

• I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of get together occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's an alliance or anything like that.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Together
  • Kind
  • Los Angeles

• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Fly
  • Just
  • Los Angeles

• At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

  

  Randy West
  • Career
  • Me
  • Radio

• The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Immigration
  • Immigrants

• I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • California
  • Los Angeles
  • Pomona

• Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Missing
  • Los Angeles
  • Based

• I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Myself
  • Hands
  • Los Angeles

• You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Destination
  • Los Angeles

• The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Man

• I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Ocean

• Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Sun
  • Place
  • Blue

• In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Space
  • Place
  • Los Angeles

• Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Style

• I'm always looking for ways to connect myself with American people and that American feeling. I'm trying to pick up on the feeling of places, like the Los Angeles feeling or the New York feeling... Los Angeles is much better for me that way.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Health
  • Vegetarian

• [Alex Hayley] wanted to show the negative aspects of the N.O.I.'s ideology, Yacub's history, and all of the ramifications of racial separatism that he felt were negative, and that Malcolm, being as charismatic as he was, a very attractive figure, nevertheless, he embodied these kind of negative traits.

  

  Manning Marable
  • History
  • Kind
  • Negative

• Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Mean
  • Judge
  • Don't Know

• Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Los Angeles
  • Immigrants
  • Defender