Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but painClings cruelly to us.
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I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.
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Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.
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I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.
