Gavin Newsom Quotes
The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.
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Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
