Gavin Newsom Quotes
While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.
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Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.
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I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself.
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Violet is my everything. She's the sweetest little girl in the whole world. She inspires me. I'm glad that we have such a close relationship because she makes me laugh and shows me how great life can be every day.
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While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
