Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gavin Hood

We arranged a meeting in Los Angeles with big name stars, but I had to drop the idea. I wanted to film in the local Soweto dialect that only Soweto youth can speak and believed that shooting in any other language would dilute the impact of the film.

We rallied the troops and said let's go into Los Angeles and see if we can get the movie rolling,

Barry Sanders

For the entire world, Los Angeles is a city of dreams,

Nicolas Berggruen

I don't mind staying in one place for a while - I like to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's a place where nobody goes out, where people will leave you alone. People in Los Angeles love themselves and they love what they do and they leave you alone. If you're isolated, you have a real advantage. You can work.

Ciara Bravo

I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working.

E. B. White

He also consults with the Los Angeles Unified (School) District, which is a gigantic school district - larger than ours.

Argus Hamilton

Officials say the only thing Los Angeles will have to build is an Olympic pistol range. What's wrong with the freeways we already have?

Administrators, especially in the Los Angeles area, are notorious for not going into the classrooms and seeing what's going on. The temptation exists in social studies to insert your own opinion, and many teachers violate that kind of thing all the time. Who's looking at the teachers to see how well these discussions are being conducted?

Janet Fitch

A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.

Steve Erickson

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Los Angeles now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Los Angeles as well.

Eli Broad

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

Spencer Boldman

I've actually done three pilots for Disney. I met with the network when I was 16 years old and had just started acting. I would fly to Los Angeles to film pilots, then fly back to Dallas, where I grew up.

Mitch Kupchak

Roy Williams turned us down for the third time. That's a Los Angeles record.

Jim Sturgess

It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the side of buildings. I didn't feel that blown away by it. I was still hungry to prove myself. I realised that quite quickly, that I had to find something that challenged me from an acting point of view.

Craig Thompson

These states and cities like Los Angeles should not be forced to cut back on vital support services such as mental health services, child care, food banks, treatment education, and case management in order to satisfy an ill-considered mandate from Washington.

Richard Kelly

The story is set in a futuristic Los Angeles as it teeters on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.

The subjects in this case targeted (for fund-raising) travelers, primarily of Asian descent, as they arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. They dressed in business attire and used binders containing photographs of starving children and other documents.

Baker's history in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is a bad one. He deceived his archbishop, his therapists and the young people who trusted him.

George Bodenheimer

This is a big day for our company. An expanded base in Los Angeles will help fuel our overall long-term growth.

Maurice Evans

They've got all the drama and hype we have the great basketball game. Detroit and San Antonio might not be glamour cities like Los Angeles and Miami, but both teams play pure basketball the way its meant to be played.

Bill Clinton

This is by far the largest group of radio and television correspondents ever assembled this far from a Los Angeles courtroom.

This is a truly historic vote. Los Angeles is making a massive statement that we want to educate our children right. It makes up for 35 years of neglect.

The university has been working with Disney since the beginning of the year on this. It'll either be sometime after the Los Angeles and New York premiere or sandwiched in between the two.

Jorge Rodriguez

There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone.

Paul Tagliabue

The reports this week about the long-term landing spot being Los Angeles were nonsensical, ... L.A.'s been the landing spot for the Indianapolis Colts, the Arizona Cardinals, the Seattle Seahawks, the Minnesota Vikings and any number of other teams, and the last time I looked they were all operating in their communities and L.A. is off the radar screen.

The brightest of even one of these stars at the distance of the sun could charge a solar powered car in one second with enough energy to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco!

Paul Tagliabue

This morning, the committee selected the Los Angeles Coliseum as the site that offers the best opportunity for the National Football League ... to create a state-of-the-art stadium that will benefit the fans, the league and the city for years to come.

I decided to go back out to Los Angeles to become a certified Tae Bo Fitness Program instructor.

Jay McInerney

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.

I'd rather be in Los Angeles than any city in the world. In many regards, we're one of the best prepared in the nation in terms of experience and based on previous natural disasters and the like.

I am very happy that my dream of playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers was realized. It will be a difficult race in spring training to make the opening-day roster.

Lou Ferrigno

I am proud to be able to do my part as part of the team and to help these brave and dedicated deputy sheriffs in keeping Los Angeles County safe for the people who live, work and visit here.