California Quotes

• There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

  Edward Abbey

  Travel, Fun, Crazy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

  Ross Macdonald

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Drowning Pool”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  Oscar Nunez

  Beautiful

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• As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

  Alison Lurie

  Past, Europe, Southern

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The Nowhere City: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Done, Ifs

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• To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

  Warren Beatty

  People, Pay, Underestimate

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• You haven't lived until you've died in California

  Mort Sahl

  Funny, Inspiration, Stewardship

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• In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, America, Southern

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• When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Oklahoma, States

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• California is always in my mind.

  David Hockney

  Mind

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• Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Fog, Smog

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• All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

  Robert Benton

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

  Bo Derek

  Dream, Beach, Horse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, Needs, Need You

  "Bellow in his own words". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2005.

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• As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.

  Jay Leno

  Laughing, Confusing, Letters

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• California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Laughter, Orange

  American Magazine Dec. 1945, p. 120

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• Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

  Jimmy Carter

  Political, Politics, Spread

  "As Jerry Brown Touts California In China, Its Citizens Pack Their Bags" by David Davenport, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Prison

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• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Phoenix

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, God, Brain

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, White, People

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• Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Giving, Hollywood

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• I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The sun always shone, everybody looked healthy and wore ties and smoked in restaurants, and there were cars for everybody - except us, because I came from a lower class neighbourhood. But [in France] I realised there was a different point of view, so when I came back to America a year and a half later I was much more focused on my own country culturally and politically.

  Robert Redford

  Country, War, Views

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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