California Quotes - Page 12

• Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  Janet Yellen

  Summer, Couple, Years

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• It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.

  Ian Mckellen

  Careers, Actors, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate. [California Democratic Party chairman about Pat Buchanan.]

  Bill Press

  Party, Perfect, Racist

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• So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses without proof of lawful residence. The article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal aliens, including one who has been in the country illegally for '22 years.'

  Michelle Malkin

  Friday, Country, Exactly Is

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• When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

  Douglas Coupland

  Scary, Culture, Assuming

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• In California, 50 women protested the impending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president.

  Jay Leno

  War, Lying, Ideas

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• I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

  Jimmy Smits

  Missing You, New York, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

  Ric Keller

  Journey, Coyotes, Borders

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• We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.

  Bobby Seale

  War, Party, Black

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• Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sorry, Powerful, Stupid

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• I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

  Shelley Berman

  Teaching, Years, Southern

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• But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal crisis in recent memory... it would be crazy not to consider the fact that it will add as much as $1 billion over the next five years simply to keep the death penalty on the books.

  John Van de Kamp

  Strong, Memories, Crazy

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• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

  Chad Smith

  Brother, Player, Get Better

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• I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighting, Pimp

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• Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

  Tom Hayden

  War, Prison, Gang

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• I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

  Bob Matsui

  Mother, Father, Taken

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• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Earthquakes

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• The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Endurance, Desert

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.116, Penguin

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• So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

  Gray Davis

  Firsts, Flaws, Plant

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• When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Travel, New York

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.54, Penguin

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• California’s Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too.

  Michael Pollan

  Labels, Genetically Modified, Propositions

  "Vote for the Dinner Party". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2012.

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• The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

  Will Smith

  Funny, Color, White

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• When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye…it was very special.

  Thelma Houston

  Running, Artist, Special

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• I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Nice, Boston, Cold

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• I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, Business, Technology

  "Former eBay CEO Shares Her Values In A New Book". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. January 25, 2010.

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