California Quotes - Page 22

• The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

  Lawrence Klein

  Training, Levels, Economics

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• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

  Walter Kohn

  Strong, Years, Jewish Identity

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• Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

  Kent McCord

  Looks, Maps

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• Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Thinking, Cells, Return

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• A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Mistake, Cutting, Past

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• In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.

  Thomas Sowell

  Home, People, Creative

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.

  Raymond Carver

  Morning, Moving, Eye

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.219, Vintage

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• When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

  James Crumley

  Spring, Drinking, Heart

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  New York, Journey, Islands

  "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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• And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.

  Jack Kerouac

  New York, Crazy, Clouds

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• I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

  Isabel Allende

  Practice, Bored, Meditation

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• It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

  Mark Twain

  Home, Names, Rushing

  Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.999, e-artnow

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• So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Marijuana, Thinking, Trying

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beach, Children, School

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.300, Orb Books

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• The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly meant: not the literal gold nuggets that they pulled out of the earth, not the riches people got when they came here, but the dreams that brought people here and are still bringing people here.

  Huell Howser

  Dream, Mean, People

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• I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am.

  Adam Levine

  People, Naked, Why Not

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

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• Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

  Christina Milian

  Home, Opportunity, Saws

  "Christina Milian music maven". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career

  Christina Milian

  Careers, Acting, Pursue

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• One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

  Joe Jonas

  Italian, Ice, Missing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.

  Jorge Garcia

  Summer, Growing Up, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

  Sigourney Weaver

  New York, Distance, Thinking

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• Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Party, Venice

  "The Terminator As Predator? A Look at Arnold on Sex, Abuse, Drugs, & Women". www.democracynow.org. August 29, 2003.

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• I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Motivation, Opportunity

  "Schwarzenegger steals recall scene / ACTOR'S ANNOUNCEMENT DRAWS IN DEMOCRAT BUSTAMANTE / PLOT TWIST: Hollywood star in race to replace Gov. Davis" by Carla Marinucci, John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. August 7, 2003.

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• The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, People, Political

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• There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

  Bill Engvall

  Suicide, Hunger Strike, Bed

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 25, 2013

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