Eric Garcetti Quotes
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The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.
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The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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The choices you make will make all of the difference in what you want to achieve.
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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
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I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."
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You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
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I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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On stage, I am in the dark.
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I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over!
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What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those posters that were put up in Europe, which said, "Come to America and you'll have golden sidewalks. The land will be yours." There was something so inspirational about the fact that these immigrants from all over the world felt that here was a place of freedom, a place of opportunity.
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I prioritize my daughter and my wife.
