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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• 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

• 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

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

  

  Billy Joel
  • Always
  • See
  • Wrong

• There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Long
  • Art
  • Funny

• If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Mainstream
  • Then

• I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Live
  • Edge

• I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Guy
  • Shave

• One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

  

  Steve Forbes
  • Psychology
  • Market
  • Investor

• Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Life
  • Photography

• 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
  • Shave
  • Jog