California Quotes - Page 28

• The University of California has been selected as the poster child of animal abuse at laboratories. It's been shown that the tactics are more effective if you just hit one person over and over and get them to quit what they're doing.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Children, Animal, Abuse

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• A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Mistake, Cutting, Past

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• In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.

  Thomas Sowell

  Home, People, Creative

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Initiative, Nobel Peace Prize, Bigs

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Germany, Literature, Said

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that's a completely different world than in California where I think there's different dreams and aspirations of maybe being a so-called 'star' and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it's theater or commercials.

  Linda Blair

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, Firsts, Inspired

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Home, Years, People

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• I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

  George Osborne

  Party, Writing, Moments

  House of Commons, www.publications.parliament.uk. August 11, 2011.

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• When you screw up, you got to pay the price. Shoot up a supermarket, you go to jail. Ride a motorcycle without a helmet, permanent brain damage and in California you're getting a ticket. Too chatty on a date with my dad, well, he'll push you in front of a cross town bus. Of course, you know, I'm speaking metaphorically. My dad will push you in front of any bus.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Pay The Price, Jail

  "Titus / Three Strikes". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• [There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.

  Eleanor Antin

  New York, Thinking, Generosity

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• I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'?

  Andy Kindler

  Cities, Voice, Numbers

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• It's fun to be in California. The police are kind of weird here. They ask you stupid questions. 'Do you know why I pulled you over?' Because I have pot in the glove compartment?

  Robert Schimmel

  Fun, Stupid, Police

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• I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

  Carlos Mencia

  New York, Florida, White

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• I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Community, Fracking

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• Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!

  Don Alias

  New York, Research, Way

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• I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.

  Justine Kurland

  New York, Ideas, Way

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• My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Writing, Nashville

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• I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.

  Patrick Stump

  Giving Up, Illinois, Law

  "Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump On His Arrest: 'Man, Is Mom Gonna Be Pissed!'". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. August 26, 2009.

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• When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Artist, Records, Producers

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• Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because some people believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming, and that preventing carbon dioxide from entering the air is the only answer. Never mind that there is still an ongoing scientific debate about global warming itself, and that some respected climate scientists believe that methane is a better target, California legislators have locked their sites on carbon dioxide.

  Kenneth P. Green

  Believe, Air, People

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• And I know that this is prophetic: that God is going to send this mighty wave - I want everyone here to prophecy with me in Lakeland - that this mighty wave is going all the way out to California, Highway 40, coast to coast aaaaah! and we want to release that mighty Holy Ghost in. Send it all over the world. The wave is moving. The wave is moving the wave is. Come on! Catch the wave. Catch the wave in Canada. Catch it in Canada. Catch it in Australia. Catch it in England. Catch it in Asia. Catch it in Europe. Catch it all over the world.

  Todd Bentley

  Moving, Europe, Australia

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• Well, my boyfriend's from California so it's kind of a bit of California countryside but closer to home. It just takes a couple of hours to get there. I don't know, it's just very laid back, nobody knows who we are really. We've just got our friends there who are kind of outside Erasure and everything. It's just very nice

  Andy Bell

  Couple, Nice, Home

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• I'm from California, I know what's up with this. You keep raising people's taxes eventually they are going to say no.

  Sean Hannity

  People, Taxes, Knows

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Epidemics, White

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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