Californians Quotes

• California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  California, Style, Doom

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, California, Southern

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

  O. Henry

  Race, San Francisco, People

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1661, ShandonPress

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• East is East, and West is San Francisco

  O. Henry

  San Francisco, East, West

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1661, ShandonPress

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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, California, Guy

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

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• You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

  David R. Brower

  Rivers, Advice, Environmental

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• After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

  Josh Radnor

  Dog, Southern, Mind

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

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• Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

  Jerry Brown

  Running, Mean, Long

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• I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

  Pete Sampras

  Kids, Guy, Wimbledon

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

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• The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

  Country, Wine, Boston

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001). “Two Years Before the Mast”, p.85, Digital Scanning Inc

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• I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

  Eric Burdon

  Dream, Fall, California

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• According to the latest L.A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so disillusioned, they're thinking about moving back to Mexico.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Fire, Erosion

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.

  Rob Kampia

  Marijuana, Curves, Public Opinion

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• One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Drinking, Wine, Years

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• We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fire, Mud, Flood

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• For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Gay, Decision

  "Proposition 8, California's ban on gay marriage, overturned by judge" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2010.

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• Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

  Carre Otis

  Taken, Diversity, Childhood

  "In the Face of Change" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Meals, Drs

  "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  New York, Editors, Diplomats

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mph, Wyoming, Police

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• They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fire, Mud, Flood

  "Phyllis Diller's File Of 53,000 Jokes". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 11, 2017.

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• Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Believe, Humor

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• I am motivated by the fact that in the next 365 days, 136,000 Californians will die and most of them will go into an eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 2.4 million Americans will die; most of them will go into eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 74 million people in the world will go into eternity without Christ and without hope. I can't live with that.

  Rick Warren

  People, World, Next

  Source: thrownscabbard.blogspot.com

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• A new study says that over half of all Californians are
  obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds
  of Californians.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Half, Facts

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