Eric Garcetti Quotes
On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've always loved cultural expression.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
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The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families who are pursuing the same goal. And that's become dramatically more expensive because of the growth in median house size, which was in turn caused by higher spending at the top.
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Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.
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I love the music business very much.
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On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've always loved cultural expression.
