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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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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At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.
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I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.
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My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
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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.
