California Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

  Gore Vidal

  Price Tag, Careers, Southern

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.61, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• A wet dream in the mind of New York.

  Erica Jong

  Dream, New York, Mind

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

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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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• I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

  Krista Allen

  Vegas, Texas, Machines

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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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• 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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• Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

  Rupert Friend

  Growing Up, Home, Half

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

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• There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Two, Texas, Political

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• You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

  Carly Fiorina

  Business, Mean, Tough Times

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2010.

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• [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Loyalty, Jobs, Science

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• Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech.

  Les Standiford

  Running, Teacher, Character

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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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• In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

  David Cassidy

  Impact, Keys, Suffering

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• Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Art, Commitment, Purpose

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• I love California. I love Hollywood.

  Dwight Henry

  Hollywood

  "Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, and Director Benh Zeitlin Talk About Their Feature Debut BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

  Henry Hopper

  Reading, Writing, Boys

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• When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.

  Anthony Head

  Couple, Holiday, America

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• Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

  John Hoeven

  Alaska, Oklahoma, Texas

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• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  Kamala Harris

  Justice, Age, Criminals

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• I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

  Kamala Harris

  Country, Believe, Adages

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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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• Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

  Judy Davis

  Father, Pride, Gay

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• What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

  Herb Ritts

  New York, Hygiene, Pace

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