Eric Garcetti Quotes

I kind of believe that, whenever possible, you should finish the job that you set out to do.

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• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Thrive

• Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • America
  • Want

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Blue

• Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Fear
  • Perfection
  • No Fear

• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Person
  • Being
  • Just

• I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Happy
  • You
  • Sad

• I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Ignorance is kind of bliss.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Kind
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • True

• I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Design

• Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Actors
  • Faults

• It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.

  

  Emma Bull
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • God
  • Man
  • Day

• Maintain a forgiving attitude!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Attitude

• That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

  

  Charlie Siem

• I kind of believe that, whenever possible, you should finish the job that you set out to do.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Believe
  • Job