Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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Desire creates its own object.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.
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We think of our future as anticipated memories.
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.
