Eric Garcetti Quotes
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The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages - it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments - or 'Moses' talking points' - but hasten to add that they're not exactly 'carved in stone.'
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How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
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I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.
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Like Maier and Seligman’s dogs, many traumatized people simply give up. Rather than risk experimenting with new options they stay stuck in the fear they know.
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Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees."
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The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
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Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.
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Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.
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I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.
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When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.
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With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.
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I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give up all the time from my work. The position won't be open for another year, but if they still want me then, I'll do it; I'll speak out as often as I can from that platform.
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Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present in the moment.
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A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.
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I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.
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I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.
