Eric Garcetti Quotes
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
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We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
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Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
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You ain't gonna sell two copies if you press a double album.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.
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My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'
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There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.
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In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'
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The best ally in the struggle against violent Islamism is moderate Islam.
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We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. 'Foxcatcher' is kind of like a metaphor for that.
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The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.
