Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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We need a more strategic, coordinated, statewide plan that identifies high-demand jobs or industries with a projected under-supply and offer training to get these Oregonians to work.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.
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When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.
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Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
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You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.
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I wouldn't say there is one specific designer I rock. It's more of the look of the shirt and what occasion and where I'm wearing it to.
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I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.
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I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.
