California Quotes - Page 29

• Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.

  Ishmael Reed

  White, Issues, Addiction

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We have people across this country who are scared to death. Because I could tell you this, as a former federal prosecutor, if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, is now a target for terrorists, that means everywhere in America is a target for these terrorists.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Mean, America

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  World, Destroying, Public Education

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.

  Joni Mitchell

  America, People, House

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• If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out there, the thing is just shocking. And the tendency, and I think it's bound to be, unless it is carefully combated by those who are managing the papers, the tendency of a monopoly situation is bound to be to damp everything down to a common level.

  Walter Millis

  Thinking, Cities, Looks

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• We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

  Sean Hannity

  Children, Years, Jail

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• People say California is the leading state on these type of issues. I've called my sister today and I said - I have a 3-year-old nephew - "Do you spank?"And she says, "If it's necessary I will. But that's my decision. I'm the mother. Not you."

  Sean Hannity

  Mother, Years, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Wings, Oregon, Unions

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.

  Jason Mraz

  Inspiration, Weather, Majority

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• California is very much my home, and has been for the last eight yeas. It doesn't matter where I am, the inner me stays the same, home is wherever I happen to be living with Tracey, my companion of the last eighteen years.

  Brian Williams

  Home, Eight, Years

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• Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.

  Bernie Sanders

  New York, School, College

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• The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fire, Forests, Disaster

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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, Political

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

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• It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Running, Decision, Important

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• California had its first medical marijuana job fair. Over 2 million people meant to show up.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Marijuana, People

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• Actually, the University of California says they may start a marijuana research center. Really? I thought the University of California was a marijuana research center.

  Jay Leno

  Marijuana, Research, May

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• California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Japan, Just Being

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• The first ads for medical marijuana have started airing on television in California. The ads are quite expensive. It costs a lot of money to buy 30 seconds during 'Spongebob Squarepants.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Marijuana, Firsts, Cost

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• Conoco will build a $75 million plant to see if a process to convert natural gas to liquid fuel is profitable. It has to be. In California, gasoline is so expensive that people are trying to run their cars on cocaine.

  Argus Hamilton

  Running, People, Car

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• In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

  John McCain

  Media, Matter, States

  "Florida joins rush toward early primary" by Pat Neal, www.cnn.com. March 3, 1999.

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• We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

  Hillary Clinton

  June, Remember, Bobby Kennedy

  "'Special Report' Panel on Hillary Clinton's Controversial 'Assassination' Comment". "Special Report With Brit Hume", www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2008.

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• Conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory of the election was California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okay, he's sui generis. But he won a landslide victory after moving to the center, while holding onto conservatives by not hiking taxes.

  Fred Barnes

  Moving, Hiking, Victory

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• I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.

  Michael Franzese

  Moving, Law, Somewhere Else

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• California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that face greater levels of poverty. But California is doing that from a greater position of real weakness, because they were already so far behind other states in funding per student. It’s a step, but many more steps need to be taken.

  Pedro Noguera

  Real, Taken, Moving

  "There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn't It". Interview with Kristina Rizga, www.motherjones.com. January 8, 2016.

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• I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.

  Eric Idle

  Home, House, Style

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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