California Quotes - Page 21

• The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Better Days, Other Countries

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.331, Courier Corporation

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• In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

  Robert Kennedy

  New York, Lying, Feuds

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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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• I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Twilight, Eye, Space

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• One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Names, Meditation

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• I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

  Bea Arthur

  Towns, Small Town, Maryland

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• I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Korea

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• I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Southern, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.

  Dorothy B. Hughes

  Your Future, Our Future

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• It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

  Alistair Cooke

  Europe, America, Glimpse

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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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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• By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

  Townsend Harris

  Mean, Japan, Steam

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• The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

  John Jakes

  Land, Gold, Treasure

  John Jakes (2012). “California Gold”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Sorry, Dad, Years

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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