California Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Intellectual, Curiosity, States

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• I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.

  Justine Kurland

  New York, Ideas, Way

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• If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Initiative, Nobel Peace Prize, Bigs

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, Firsts, Inspired

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that's a completely different world than in California where I think there's different dreams and aspirations of maybe being a so-called 'star' and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it's theater or commercials.

  Linda Blair

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

  George Osborne

  Party, Writing, Moments

  House of Commons, www.publications.parliament.uk. August 11, 2011.

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• It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Home, Years, People

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• [There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.

  Eleanor Antin

  New York, Thinking, Generosity

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• When you screw up, you got to pay the price. Shoot up a supermarket, you go to jail. Ride a motorcycle without a helmet, permanent brain damage and in California you're getting a ticket. Too chatty on a date with my dad, well, he'll push you in front of a cross town bus. Of course, you know, I'm speaking metaphorically. My dad will push you in front of any bus.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Pay The Price, Jail

  "Titus / Three Strikes". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

  Carlos Mencia

  New York, Florida, White

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• Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!

  Don Alias

  New York, Research, Way

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• I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Community, Fracking

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• It's fun to be in California. The police are kind of weird here. They ask you stupid questions. 'Do you know why I pulled you over?' Because I have pot in the glove compartment?

  Robert Schimmel

  Fun, Stupid, Police

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• My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Writing, Nashville

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• A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.

  Anne Rice

  Baby, Adventure, Eye

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• The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.

  Nathan Runkle

  Animal, People, Abuse

  "California files appeal to have block on foie gras ban overturned". www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2015.

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• Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies whose mothers lived near crops when certain pesticides were sprayed. The largest risks were found among pregnant women exposed during the critical first trimester and among those who lived in the same square mile where pesticides were used.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Mother, Baby, Squares

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.94, Da Capo Press

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• We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Jobs, Children, Cancer

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• Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?

  Al Meyerhoff

  Children, Government, Risk

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• What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I'm negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Lines, Jersey

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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