California Quotes - Page 11

• But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

  Kenneth Lay

  Important, Causes, Economy

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• But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

  Kenneth Lay

  Enron

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• Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

  Herb Ritts

  Growing Up, Light, Texture

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• I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

  Herb Ritts

  Art, Growing Up, New Experiences

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• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

  Michael Medved

  Pain, Winning, Race

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).

  Anne Lamott

  Block, Writing, Voice

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

  Kenny Guinn

  Doors, Pay, Way

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• I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Data, Black

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• California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

  Paul Mazursky

  New York, Islands

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• Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

  Catherine Crier

  Years, Twenties, Firsts

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• With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, Light, Ministry

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• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, School, Alliances

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• I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

  David Talbot

  Dream, War, Teenager

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• Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.

  Ford Frick

  Baseball, New York, Moving

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• I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.

  Chuck Zito

  Angel, Sometimes, Hell

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• Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.

  Vaughn Walker

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Opponents of same-sex marriage to file appeal in California case". www.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Professionally, I decided to commit a lot
  of my time to California because there
  wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.

  Alice Barrett

  New York, Commit, My Time

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• America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.

  Charles A. Reich

  Thoughtful, Land, America

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  One Day, Next, Wonder

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• I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

  Cobi Jones

  Years, Cities, Two

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• I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

  Phillip Lim

  Growing Up, Thinking, Parent

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• I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Running, America, Criminals

  Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.7, University of Washington Press

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• I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.

  Brian Bosworth

  Introvert, Boring, Boring Life

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• Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Civilization, America, Generations

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• And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

  Warren Zevon

  Ocean, Future, Statistics

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