California Quotes - Page 24

• My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

  Herbie Mann

  Daughter, Mother, Moving

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• In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.

  Stuart Campbell

  Art, Rain, Utah

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• Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.

  Lindsey Shaw

  School, Soup Kitchens, Foundation

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• Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

  Brion James

  Cowboy, Play, Agriculture

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• I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given the choices we face in California, should we have a merit-based discussion on its effectiveness and costs?

  Tani Cantil-Sakauye

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

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• My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for all the groups. So you don't do it, particularly if people in California vote on it, don't want it, they think that the heterosexuality is a societal stabilizer.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Gay, Thinking, Heterosexuality Is

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• What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

  Mother Teresa

  Men, Death Penalty, Death Row

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• Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Impact, Two

  "Rupert Murdoch launches effort to green News Corp.’s operations and programming". grist.org. May 9, 2007.

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• Get my kush in California, Get my dro from Arizona

  Lil Wayne

  Weed, Rap, Arizona

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• I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

  Glenn Frey

  Dope, Age, Magazines

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• An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida to Alaska - anywhere where African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans live and comprise a majority of the population. Collectively, these Americans represent the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States. They are also the groups most at risk from environmental problems.

  Robert D Bullard

  New York, Native American, Alaska

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• They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Country, Sides, Insult

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• While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.

  Gordon Cooper

  Lakes, Air, Rose

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• Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

  George C. Marshall

  Determination, Airplane, Army

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• Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

  Rick Strassman

  Religious, Israel, Holocaust

  Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.295, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• One of the West's singular migrations - from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley - is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...

  Gerald Haslam

  Loss, Land, Voice

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• The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly meant: not the literal gold nuggets that they pulled out of the earth, not the riches people got when they came here, but the dreams that brought people here and are still bringing people here.

  Huell Howser

  Dream, Mean, People

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• I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am.

  Adam Levine

  People, Naked, Why Not

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

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• Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

  Christina Milian

  Home, Opportunity, Saws

  "Christina Milian music maven". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career

  Christina Milian

  Careers, Acting, Pursue

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• One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

  Joe Jonas

  Italian, Ice, Missing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.

  Jorge Garcia

  Summer, Growing Up, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

  Sigourney Weaver

  New York, Distance, Thinking

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• Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Party, Venice

  "The Terminator As Predator? A Look at Arnold on Sex, Abuse, Drugs, & Women". www.democracynow.org. August 29, 2003.

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