San Diego Quotes - Page 2

• I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.

  Jason Mraz

  Inspiration, Weather, California

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• My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

  Tess Gerritsen

  Childhood, Library, Becoming

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• Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cities, Two, Gambling

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.

  James F. Amos

  Military, Marine, Islands

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• There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

  Emma Stone

  School, Men, Class

  "Emma Stone: The Cool Girl". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.

  Dorianne Laux

  Dad, Kids, Writing

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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• I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.

  Jason Mraz

  Beach, Sorry, Moving

  "Jason Mraz Is Turning the Tide". Interview with Anna Griffin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

  James L. Farmer, Jr.

  Years, Cinema, Kind

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• I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.

  David Ulevitch

  Summer, Jobs, Mars

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• In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money - not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied,] 'it's not relevant to men.'

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Notes, Percentages

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Team, Eye, Lame

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• Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

  Justin Halpern

  Los Angeles, Herpes

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• What we've established (in San Diego) with my growing family is hard to re-create. It's hard to up and re-create that. I know that moves are part of life. But that certainty is fair to say that (not being sold on moving to Los Angeles) is part of it. The good thing is I'm not under contract in a year where we'd potentially be in Los Angeles.

  Philip Rivers

  Moving, Years, Growing

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• The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.

  Chris Abani

  Real, Philosophical, Mean

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• I am blessed and honored with the opportunity I have to come play for the San Diego Chargers now.

  Darius Philon

  Blessed, Opportunity, Play

  Chargers.com interview, www.chargers.com. May 02, 2015.

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• What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.

  Janet Napolitano

  Mean, Technology, Borders

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• I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Teacher, Dad, Heart

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

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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  Danica McKellar

  Couple, Years, Acting

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• I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard thing of just moving without much money and just seeing if I could make it work.

  Doug Benson

  Moving, Standards, Grew

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend

  Luke Wilson

  Girlfriend, Couple, Team

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• It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

  Andy Partridge

  Running, Pain, Play

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• This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may be out in the desert today, but tomorrow it could be in your backyard…Already over a dozen projects are proposed in San Diego and Imperial County.

  Robert Scheid

  Land, Giving, Backyards

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• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Sibling, Believe

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• In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

  Leslie Charteris

  Country, America, West

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• It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.

  Don Williams

  Country, Technology, California

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