California Quotes - Page 9

• Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening

  Mark Yudof

  People, Listening, President

  "Big Man on Campus". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. September 24, 2009.

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• I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Texas, Political

  "The misunderestimated president" by John O'Farrell, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2001.

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• I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

  Allegra Huston

  Girl, Taken, People

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• There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Unique, Kentucky

  "John Calipari Won't Acknowledge That Louisville Is In Kentucky" by Mike Rutherford, www.sbnation.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Dark, Years

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• Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Memories, Museums, Vaults

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• In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Hollywood, World

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

  George Pelecanos

  Humanity, Shapes, Next

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• You can't have everything, even in California

  Raymond Chandler

  Inspiration

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.250, Grove Press

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• Vegas is definitely a place where we can win. We had a good run here last year, and I feel even more confident about the car we're taking this time. We're taking the car that we raced in California two weeks ago, and it was obviously a good car.

  Greg Biffle

  Running, Winning, Vegas

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• In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Giving, Teeth

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• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Moving, Land

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Mean, World, Saving

  FaceBook post by Nicolas Berggruen from Jul 29, 2016

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• If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!

  Brad Stine

  Nice, Past, Years

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• Welcome to Anaheim, California, my fellow broken-down, washed-up wrestler.

  Mick Foley

  Wwe, Broken, Welcome

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• I know theres a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. Theres a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.

  Tom McClintock

  Order, Reform, Schwarzenegger

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• If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weed, Travel, Strong

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.346, Yale University Press

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Italian

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

  Otis Chandler

  Southern, World, Los Angeles

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• I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

  Tracy Chapman

  Beach, Woods, Able

  "Without Further Ado, Singer Tracy Chapman Returns". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 20, 2009.

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• The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

  Alcee Hastings

  Flames, Judging, Middle East

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• I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. I say this as I'm wearing Adidas sweatpants and a ten-year-old Chrome Hearts T-shirt.

  Carson Daly

  Heart, Cutting, Rocks

  "Last Call: The New Old Nightly Daily Show". Interview with Julie Vadnal, www.elle.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

  William Barrett

  Dirty, Oil, Limited Resources

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• California, here I come, right back where I started from.

  Al Jolson

  "California Here I Come" (song) (1924).

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• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  Camryn Manheim

  Growing Up, School, College

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