Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
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It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
