California Quotes - Page 2

• California is always in my mind.

  David Hockney

  Mind

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• Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

  Jimmy Carter

  Political, Politics, Spread

  "As Jerry Brown Touts California In China, Its Citizens Pack Their Bags" by David Davenport, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, God, Brain

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

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• There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

  Calvin Trillin

  Fun, America, People

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• We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

  J. C. Watts

  Energy, Democrat, Crisis

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• Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

  Alan Moore

  Rain, Cupcakes, Unjust

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• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there

  Parker Stevenson

  Color, House, Style

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• It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

  Truman Capote

  Funny, Years, Intelligence

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume

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• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Selfish, Effort, Looks

  "The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts". Book by D. H. Lawrence, Vol. 4, 1987.

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• When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

  Joel Silver

  Location, Values

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

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• Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, New York, Divorce

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• In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.

  Edward Ruscha

  Dark, Taught, Belts

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

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• In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Golf, Law

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

  J. B. Priestley

  Philosophy, Character, Civilization

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• In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

  Helmut Newton

  House, Backyards, Looks

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• Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Cancer, Cutting

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2009.

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• If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

  Venus Williams

  People, Made, Compton

  Venus Williams during U.S. Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 8, 2015.

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• Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, White, People

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• As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.

  Jay Leno

  Laughing, Confusing, Letters

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• whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Florida, Progress, Said

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.14, Bantam

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• You haven't lived until you've died in California

  Mort Sahl

  Funny, Inspiration, Stewardship

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• I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Prison

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• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Phoenix

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

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• I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Thinking, New Orleans

  Source: therumpus.net

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