California Quotes - Page 33

• Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to live in California. I exercised. I drank less. It was one of the things about California that had a positive impact on me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Ambition, Athlete, Impact

  "Patrick Stewart: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2013.

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• Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities here. They see that rents are relatively cheap compared to places like New York and California.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  New York, People, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It seems to show up there most clearly. They had a helmet law for motorcycles in California and the bikies were saying things like, "It restricts my vision. I can't hear what my bike's doing. If it was on fire I wouldn't know it until my ass caught." And at the bottom line what the bikies were saying was, "Look, it's my goddamn head and if I want to splatter my brains all over the guardrails on the Coast Highway, super for me."

  Stephen King

  Struggle, Fire, Law

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• Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

  David Pogue

  Alcohol, Brain, Use

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• Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

  Stephen Ambrose

  Texas, Would Be, Mexico

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• I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.

  Pamela Anderson

  Girl, California Girls, Ultimate

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

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• I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Trying, Three

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• I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

  Hillary Clinton

  Ohio, Massachusetts, Youth

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• I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Land, Ideas

  "What Drives George Clooney". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

  Gail Collins

  Years, Tuition, States

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Community, World

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• California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

  Jim DeMint

  Cliffs, Trough, Bailouts

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• My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Dad, Play, Tennis

  "Five Questions with Ashley Tisdale". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.

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• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

  Cicely Tyson

  Relationship, Men, Thinking

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• The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

  Vince Vaughn

  Home, Illinois, Cities

  "Vince Vaughn in Love". Interview with Gary Dretzka, www.chicagomag.com. June, 2006.

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• Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. My abuelita, my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Mean, Grandmother

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

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• My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here... then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States - that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Growing Up, Motivation

  "Schwarzenegger: No country more welcoming than the USA". Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, edition.cnn.com. August 31, 2004.

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• There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.

  James Garner

  Running, Country, Differences

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day, and do the best that I can do. I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working, and lucky to be working.

  Scott Eastwood

  Hard Work, Guy, Lucky

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

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• I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream

  Victoria Principal

  Girl, Dream, Jobs

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• I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reality, Southern, Influence

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

  Mike Huckabee

  God, People, Forgiving

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• Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Dream, Usa, Southern

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1984). “European Poems & Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, Quality

  John Steinbeck (2002). “Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• You're all welcome in California.

  Jerry Brown

  Welcome

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