Eric Garcetti Quotes
People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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Here’s a pot with a cot in a parkIn a park where the peach-blossoms blew,Where the lovers eloped in the dark,Lived, died and were changed into twoBright birds that eternally flewThrough the boughs of the may, as they sang;’T is a tale was undoubtedly trueIn the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
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What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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For years, people have re-dialed when the line was busy. They waited their turn. When I'm put on hold, I always hope that as my revenge, their other call will be someone wanting to sell them something.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
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People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.
