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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• Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

  Shana Alexander

  Home, California, People

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• What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.

  Maureen Lipman

  California, Doe, Dinner

  Maureen Lipman (2013). “Past-It Notes”, p.57, JR Books Limited

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• Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.

  Joni Rodgers

  Race, Political, Prejudice

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• People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

  Linda Gray

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

  Carly Fiorina

  Jobs, Worried, Spending

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• Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  Cynicism, British, Patronizing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

  Allen West

  America, Government, Oasis

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• Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Earthquakes, Planning, Happens

  Sheila Ballantyne (1988). “Life on Earth: Stories”, Simon & Schuster

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Amusement

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

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• An old interview of Arnold Schwartzenegger has surfaced where he admits to smoking a lot of pot and having sex with hookers. Finally a Republican all Californians can get behind.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Smoking, Interviews

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• Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

  Pico Iyer

  Medicine, Kyoto, Santa Barbara

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Healthy, Care, Environment

  Interview with RealClearPolitics.com, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 24, 2009.

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• The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

  John Garamendi

  Years, Use, Affection

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• I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Thinking, California, Guy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

  Gertrude Atherton

  California, People, Individuality

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• Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, California, Fake

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• Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.

  Stella Benson

  Country, Art, Cities

  Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”

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• Californians try everything once.

  T. J. MacGregor

  California, Trying

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• We are delighted with today’s State Supreme Court ruling allowing marriage equality in California. It is a true testament to advancing equality and to recognizing the right of all Californians to build a future with the person they love. We recently lost Mildred Loving, the woman whose marriage to a man of another race ushered in the Supreme Court ruling that made marriage colorblind. Today’s ruling is another important reminder that love will overcome.

  Karen Bass

  Men, Race, California

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• I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Two, Adjectives

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

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