Eric Garcetti Quotes
If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
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I am such a political person.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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God, I'm glad I'm not me.
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No. We don't really do that. We feel that objectifies women and that's not really what we're about.
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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
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I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.
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I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
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I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.
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While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
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If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.
