Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I don't really care how I sound.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
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So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.
