Gavin Newsom Quotes
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
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Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated, and the water was really different. It was really strange, because you're on the other side of the planet, and you think, 'Oh, water is the same everywhere,' and it is, but it still felt strange.
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If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.
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When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.
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Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate.
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Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.
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We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
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For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
