California Quotes - Page 3

• Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.

  Craig Ferguson

  Writing, Law, Texting

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• Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

  Linus Torvalds

  May, Lasts, Cold

  "The Pragmatist of Free Software". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

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• I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Space, Hollywood

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• When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Oklahoma, States

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• In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Choices, Thieves, Three

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• All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

  Robert Benton

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.

  Benjamin Stone

  People, Waiting, Lucky

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• El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Southern, Climate

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Fog, Smog

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• In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, America, Southern

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• Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Southern, Actors, Nannies

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• California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Laughter, Orange

  American Magazine Dec. 1945, p. 120

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• California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, Needs, Need You

  "Bellow in his own words". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2005.

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• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Country, Beach

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

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• To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

  Warren Beatty

  People, Pay, Underestimate

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.

  Erma Bombeck

  Beach, Utah, White

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• Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it on my computer, and I couldn't put it down. More importantly, I kept getting up in the middle of the night going, "Oh, this is cool," so I pitched them an idea that they seemed to like.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Reading, Night, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

  Nicolas Cage

  Beach, Book, Philosophical

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• Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Giving, Hollywood

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• always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

  Stella Benson

  Dream, Air, Giving

  Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”

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• No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

  Janet Fitch

  West, Matter, Compass

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.269, Hachette UK

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• In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

  Cherie Priest

  Lying, Wings, Gold

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Boneshaker”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Knives, America, Doe

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1855). “The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction”, p.68

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• For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is getting more rain than California.

  Conan O'Brien

  Rain, Vegetables, Space

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• The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

  Cher

  Divorce, Adultery, Southern California

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

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