Gavin Newsom Quotes
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I want to win football games.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
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If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it's in significant part because we haven't done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we're going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it's the investments we made in the 1950s and '60s and '70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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For me, it's mostly about having stuff on the street. You're walking down the street, you do it every day, and suddenly there's something that wasn't there yesterday: something bright and cheerful and different. It might stay there for a year; maybe it will disappear.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
