Eric Garcetti Quotes
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.
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For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
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I have God, Jesus Christ: I'm Christian. I try to stay as grounded as I possibly can. And I have my parents that help me and my friends that are really great accountability partners to me.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.
