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 had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.
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My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.
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I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.
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I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
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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.
