Eric Garcetti Quotes
The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
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I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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Over the past decade a combination of diverse forces has created a significant increase in the global supply of saving -- a global saving glut.
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In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.
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I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
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Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
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The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
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I'm raising my family in The Church, and I'm proud of that.
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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
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The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
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My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.
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I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
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The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.
