Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble and say, "I don't know why. I don't feel qualified, but I accept this role that you gave me, and so help me."
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Honestly, the type of runner I am, I'm a physical guy, and I try to set the tone early in the game, so you're going to see it a lot in the first and second quarter.
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I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.
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Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build
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Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind.
