Eric Garcetti Quotes
Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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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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Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.
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When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
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Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.
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Love is sacrifice.
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I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.
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Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.
