Eric Garcetti Quotes
I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.

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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
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The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.
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I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.