Eric Garcetti Quotes
I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.
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Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
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The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
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I want to be the guy with the fresh new sound. I can remember as a kid thinking about a DJ going, 'Ladies and gentlemen, here's the new one from Frankie Ballard. He's the guy with that hot new sound.' That's the dream.
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Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s.
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I was such a punk.
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Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.
