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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
-
It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
-
I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
-
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.
-
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
-
Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
-
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
-
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.
-
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
-
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
-
What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
-
I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
-
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
-
We believe widespread adoption of home solar will significantly improve life in cities by phasing out polluting coal plants, eliminating miles of ugly new transmission lines, and ensuring cleaner, healthier lives.
-
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.
