Eric Garcetti Quotes

I'm in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don't shave, they're taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they're talking to you.

Eric Garcetti

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• Fishbowl
• Shave
• Jog

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• I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Feet

• I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Serious

• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Focus
  • Look
  • Looking Forward

• Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Different
  • Long
  • Story

• My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Party
  • Questions
  • Ask

• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  

  Iain Banks
  • American
  • Future
  • Looking

• People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Time
  • Eyes

• The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • World
  • Mind
  • Emotions

• I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Work
  • Music
  • Heart

• It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • World
  • Way
  • Consciousness

• Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Good
  • Literature
  • News

• There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • Joy
  • Vitality

• Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Done
  • Artist
  • Exception

• Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Always
  • See
  • Wrong

• I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Proud
  • Gay
  • Breathe

• I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Me
  • Film
  • Magic

• I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Government
  • Market
  • Regulation

• I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Heart
  • Sweet
  • Failures

• The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Long
  • Sun
  • Seducing

• I'm in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don't shave, they're taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they're talking to you.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Market
  • Fishbowl
  • Shave