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.

Eric Garcetti

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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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• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

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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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• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  

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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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• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

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• The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

  

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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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• When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

  

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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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• I'm getting money over here. I'm good, I'm young, I'm finally in a position to feed my family; please don't take that away from me.

  

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• My greatest success story has been my family.

  

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• We need to examine hatred on a global perspective because hatred is everywhere, and it does not matter who you are: you can be a victim of it anywhere and anytime.

  

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• It's all about secular unionism, the advancement of atheism, which they even tried to create in this law - Democrats did - an atheistic chaplaincy.

  

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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.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Family
  • Expression
  • Musicians