Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.
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It's too heart-wrenching doing the solo thing. I throw myself into it and get so excited, and then 2000 people buy it and you're, like, 'Oh. I guess it's not that good after all.'
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There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.
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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
