Eric Garcetti Quotes

I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

Eric Garcetti

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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Words
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fearless

• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Game
  • Lucky

• Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.

  

  Manny Farber
  • World
  • May
  • Pride

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Long
  • Why

• I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Want
  • Old
  • Now

• I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Just

• How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

  

  Edward Herrmann
  • Character
  • Action
  • Unique

• I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • Long
  • Business

• Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Live
  • Together
  • Relationship

• The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Light

• The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • Money

• While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an important guideline for Congress. Once the President's proposed budget is received by Congress on the first Monday of February, Congress generally goes to work on appropriating the funds required.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Work
  • Important
  • Monday

• We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Heart
  • Small
  • Brain

• I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Challenge
  • Poverty
  • Recession