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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We agreed that we're going to work on procedure... we're going to try to sit down and work out a framework, we'll meet tomorrow, ... We didn't want to get into the policy side before we had a procedure worked out.
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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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I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
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I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.
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Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.
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The heaviest burden of all is the presence of the war and the increasing superficiality. It gives me incessantly the impression of a bloody carnival.. .I am now like the whores, I once painted in his Berlin-time: the merest brushstroke now, gone tomorrow. Nonetheless I am still trying to put my thoughts in order and, from all the confusion, create an image of time, which is my task, after all.
