California Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

  Richard Widmark

  Friends, Two, Gone

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• The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

  Bobby Darin

  Running, Party, Hymns

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• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  Calamity Jane

  Umpires, San Francisco, Territory

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

  Alice Rivlin

  Low Income, Trends, Pressure

  "MAKING ENDS MEET / The well-off are better off, but the ranks of the poor are growing, and middle- and low-income workers feel pressure of high prices" by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2005.

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• I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

  Krista Allen

  Lucky, Wanted, Knows

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• I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

  Eleanor Coppola

  Art, Paris, Venice

  Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Simon & Schuster

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• All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

  Quentin Crisp

  Cutting, Sea, Venice

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• My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

  Jeff Gordon

  Careers, Racing, Age

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• The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Practice, Venice

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• It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret.

  Lindsay Ellingson

  Home, Secret, Exciting

  "A Day in The Life of an Angel" by Lindsay Ellingson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2011.

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• California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Party, Technology

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• I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk.

  James Belushi

  Moving, Years, Healthy

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• My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

  William Saroyan

  Summer, Country, Drinking

  "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas

  Red Skelton

  Inspiration, Sleep, Texas

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• We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Sports, Way

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• When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.

  Alice Cooper

  Fire, Blood, Poetry

  Song: Working Up A Sweat, Album: Muscle of Love, 1973

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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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• 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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