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

• 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

• 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

• I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Support
  • Day

• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Music
  • Communication

• You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• Sports can't be run by governments.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Run
  • Governments

• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• There were times when I was ready to shoot myself.

  

  Marc Singer
  • Times
  • Shoot

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

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • People