Santa Cruz Quotes

• Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

  Tom Hanks

  Growing Up, Thinking, Moon

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• The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

  David Talbot

  School, Santa, Journalism

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• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  Aaron Koblin

  Summer, Beach, Hippie

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Marine, Bahamas

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• When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

  Marisa Miller

  Girl, Home, Santa

  "Monte Headliners Hope Show Starts Something Big..." by Genevieve Bookwalter and Alia Wilson, www.santacruzsentinel.com. October 02, 2009.

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• The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now the Southwest and Far West. That's why cities have Spanish names: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, etc. All of this is suppressed in standard American history. But the victims remember. The conquerors typically have one history, the victims a different one - and often a more accurate one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Texas, Cities, Names

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

  Ellen Bass

  Santa, Moved, Cruz

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• [Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

  William Halsey

  Courage, Two, Enemy

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• I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.

  Marisa Miller

  Dad, California, Santa

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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, California, Community

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• I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere where you could do a lot of aspect of music without it being a conservatory. And that's why I went there.

  Tod Machover

  Years, California, Atmosphere

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

  Ben Stein

  Teacher, Law, California

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Marine, Research

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