Eric Garcetti Quotes

I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.

Eric Garcetti

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• To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Olympics
  • Qualify
  • World Championships

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Live
  • Training

• I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Experience

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Man
  • Fighter

• We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Rule Of Law

• I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Game
  • Man
  • Rock

• The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Funny
  • Husband
  • Sad

• I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Faith
  • Admitted

• We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Will
  • Still
  • Recession

• I started doing stand-up in college.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Up
  • College
  • Doing

• I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Food

• There is a god within us.

  

  Ovid
  • God
  • U.S.
  • Within

• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Moving

• I love my refrigerator.

  

  Al Roker

• I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Thinking
  • Character

• The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Time
  • Bee

• I can't work with my brother without laughing.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Work
  • Brother

• Technology has been the great equalizer: you can find your audience, you can build your brand, and the people that are into you, great. They're going to follow you to whatever platform you go to.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Technology

• As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • World
  • Children
  • Childhood

• I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • American
  • Italian
  • Last Name