Los Angeles Quotes

• Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

  Rona Barrett

  Enemy, Picks

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

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• Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Beautiful, Beach, Nice

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

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• I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

  Lady Gaga

  New York, Games, Play

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• Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

  Dorothy Parker

  Cities, Two, Seventies

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• The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.

  Billy Connolly

  Two, Two Days

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• In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

  Miranda Richardson

  Attitude, Laughing, Loser

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

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• Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

  Quentin Crisp

  New York, Lying, Lying Down

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• The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Differences, Yogurt, Fruit

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

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• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  Barbara Kruger

  New York, Cities, Culture

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• In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

  Simon Hoggart

  Jobs, New York, Stars

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

  Liam Neeson

  Thinking, Two, People

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

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• We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going.

  Rita Rudner

  Moving, Years, Careers

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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

  Justin Halpern

  San Diego, Herpes

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• Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

  Henry Miller

  Cities, Giving, Imagination

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.257, New Directions Publishing

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• There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, Car, Wish

  1981 Social Studies,'Lesson One'.

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• In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

  Delia Ephron

  Architecture, Loser, Building

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• Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

  Robert Towne

  Water, Chinatown

  "Chinatown". www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

  Norman Mailer

  Plastic, Constellations

  1969 Miami and the Siege of Chicago,'The Siege of Chicago'.

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• When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

  Luke Wilson

  Eye, Insomnia, Bats

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

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• When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

  Neil Simon

  New York, Interesting, People

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• LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

  Jack Kerouac

  Cities, Brutal, Comradeship

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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• Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Funny, Humorous, Land

  Quoted in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: A Book of Quotations (1973). Although usually attributed toWright, it was credited toWill Rogers ("Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles") in the Washington Post, 17 May 1964.

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• LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winter, Cities, Feelings

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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