Eric Garcetti Quotes
Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
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Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.
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Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.
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Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.
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You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong…
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When freedom rises from the killing floor,No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.And no kind of army can hope to win a warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
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I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.
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Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.
