Eric Garcetti Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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Grishkin is nice: herRussian eye is underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.
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You talk like they don’t kick dreams around downtown.
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I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.
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Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
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I'm very much a California boy. I try to eat healthy and exercise.
