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"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
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"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
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"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
"We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing."
"The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back."
"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."
"I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing."
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