California Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

  William Barrett

  Dirty, Oil, Limited Resources

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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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