Gavin Newsom Quotes
We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
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A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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Sometimes you get the rap of, 'Don't always play hard,' or, 'Just doing it for the money.' But there are guys that genuinely love the game of basketball and are always playing it and are always out there. There are guys that work hard and actually understand the game and are very knowledgeable off the court as well.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
