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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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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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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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 would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.
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Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.
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California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
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Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.
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As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.
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Though there are plenty of reasons to critique U.S. foreign policy and the way in which the U.S. military enacts it, serving your country has long been a way for economically marginalized Americans to get an economic step up - and could be for trans people as well.
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Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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And heaven had wanted one immortal song.But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
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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.
