Gavin Newsom Quotes
I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
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Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
