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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'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
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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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I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.
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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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It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
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I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.
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I was always told that I acted too white. I was always told that I was going to date a white guy - which, in fairness, was true: I do have a white boyfriend. So they weren't entirely wrong, but all of those things were really damaging.
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One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.
