Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
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Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.
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Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
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I want to win this because there is pride and dignity in what we do. Dressing up for a living does not make us less of a man.
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You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
