Eric Garcetti Quotes
Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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I bat righty.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
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People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
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One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
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It is time to recognise that austerity alone condemns not just Greece but the whole of Europe to the probability of a painful and protracted era of little or no economic growth. This would be a tragedy not just for Greece and for Europe, but for the world.
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As someone told me later, writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics. This was the first time I was so punished.
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My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.
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English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
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The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
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Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.
