California Quotes - Page 20

• If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, Mean, Two

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't think I'll ever come east again. So I decided to stay and go through the halls and stairways, talk to Gilda Radner, holler, express some of my anger and make sure there were no ghosts in the hallways that I should ever be afraid of.And then I found out - it sounds strange, but I found out she had left me the house. We never talked about her dying and what she was going to leave me or I would ever leave her. We just didn't talk about those things.

  Gene Wilder

  Home, Thinking, House

  Source: keranews.org

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• Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Moving, Would Be, Toronto

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

  Neil Young

  Couple, Writing, Tunes

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that's why he committed suicide.

  Kevin Sessums

  Suicide, Team, Cutting

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or time and memory and how they look when you get to be in your sixties, and I thought, "Well, yes but people are dying every day in Baghdad," I wouldn't feel guilty about not writing about Baghdad if I didn't have any good ideas about how to write about it.

  Robert Hass

  Memories, Writing, Grandchildren

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.

  Byron Katie

  Husband, War, Iraq

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter how simplistic or no matter how much you may disagree with them, were fairly well-developed and fairly consistent. Donald Trump is a real-estate branding operator and a reality-show television star whose entrance into big-time politics, as a victor, as someone who will now wield tremendous power, was as shocking to him as it was to everybody else.

  David Remnick

  Stars, Real, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Running, New York, Texas

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.

  Patricia Arquette

  Impact, America, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.

  Patricia Arquette

  Men, Years, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Maxine Waters is a Democrat from California in her 13th term. She is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. She is among the six-dozen Democratic lawmakers who boycotted Donald's Trump inauguration. She did participate in the women's march.

  Michel Martin

  Water, House, Black

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I don’t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails I’m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.

  Kevin Drum

  Thinking, Doctors, White

  "In Flint, We Are Laying Tragedy on Top of Tragedy on Top of Tragedy" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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• 'Christopher Walken' is my "Hotel California," but I've done it so much

  Jay Mohr

  Done, Hotel

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

  George Carlin

  Men, Stuff, Bongs

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I just want people in America to know that Oklahoma is a great place to live. You know, just like states have wildfires in California, or earthquakes or they may have other tornadoes in other areas of the - of the country, you know, this is really a great, great state. Our economy is doing beautifully, and the people are wonderful.

  Mary Fallin

  Country, Earthquakes, America

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.

  Jerry Brown

  Children, Men, Better Life

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that.

  Kevin Starr

  Writing, Suffering, Definitions

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

  Kevin Starr

  Country, States, Public Life

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?

  Kevin Starr

  Thinking, Years, Games

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.

  Kevin Starr

  People, Strive

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Prayer, Couple

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.

  David LaChapelle

  Trying, Bulls, Dollars

  Source: wwd.com

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• We give tremendous amounts of money to California - California in many ways is out of control.

  Donald Trump

  Giving, Way, Amount

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

  David Frum

  America, People, Trump

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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