Caroline Leavitt Quotes

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

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• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • World
  • May

• I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Advice

• Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Twitter
  • Some People

• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Deserve

• I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • City
  • Day

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Young
  • Opportunities

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Strong
  • Progress

• Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• Square meals often make round people.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Round
  • Square

• Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Gay

• I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Games
  • Product

• The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

  

  Benjamin Walker
  • People
  • Bad
  • Vampire

• There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Exercise
  • Possible
  • Talk

• There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

  

  Erlend Loe
  • Thinking
  • Confusing
  • Sarcasm

• L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • People