California Quotes - Page 25

• I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Motivation, Opportunity

  "Schwarzenegger steals recall scene / ACTOR'S ANNOUNCEMENT DRAWS IN DEMOCRAT BUSTAMANTE / PLOT TWIST: Hollywood star in race to replace Gov. Davis" by Carla Marinucci, John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. August 7, 2003.

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• The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, People, Political

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• There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

  Bill Engvall

  Suicide, Hunger Strike, Bed

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 25, 2013

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• The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Intellectual, Curiosity, States

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• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

  Warren Christopher

  Father, Years, Bankers

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• I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

  Meg Whitman

  Teacher, Children, Kids

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, Vegetables, Fruit

  "Former eBay CEO Shares Her Values In A New Book". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. January 25, 2010.

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• Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

  Meg Whitman

  Business, Regulation, Size

  "The Kudlow Report", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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• And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Want, Able

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• You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track.

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Thinking, Numbers

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17,2009.

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• I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

  Meg Whitman

  Thinking, Differences, Want

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter

  Patricia Highsmith

  New York, Progress, Trouble

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• No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

  Chris Paul

  New York, Florida, Who I Am

  Interview with Teena Apeles, me.askmen.com.

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• My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

  Pico Iyer

  Christmas, Air, Japan

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Dec 20, 2015

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• When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

  Jane Smiley

  Friendship, Summer, Mother

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• What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.

  Lou Engle

  Insanity, Religion, Islam

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. December 17, 2009.

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• As one California winemaker said, "We release no wine before the bank tells us that its ready."

  Kevin Zraly

  Wine, Release, Said

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• The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children

  Mark Potok

  Children, Block, People

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• When completed, Disney's California Adventure will feel more immersive and richer. It will have more heart.

  Jay Rasulo

  Heart, Adventure, Feels

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• The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season.

  Kassim Osgood

  Reality, Somewhere Else, Southern

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• I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.

  John McCain

  Country, Reality, Effort

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• Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

  Jerry Brown

  Sacrifice, Cutting, Reality

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• Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

  Steven Pinker

  Self Esteem, School, Kids

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.560, Penguin

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• I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.

  Jasmine Tookes

  Inspirational, Softball, Volleyball

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