Gavin Newsom Quotes
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.
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High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
