California Quotes - Page 33

• There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe have placed their bodies on the line, protesting peacefully while trying to produce a new language, politics, imagine long-term institutions, and support notions of community that manifest the values of equality and mutual respect that they see missing in a world that is structured by neoliberal principles.

  Henry Giroux

  New York, Oakland, Cities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our tour is winding down and I was just thinking about what I want to do. I like growing so I think I might start growing again. As a medical marijuana patient, under California law I am licensed to grow 12 plants.

  Tommy Chong

  Thinking, Marijuana, Law

  Source: vegascannabismag.com

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• The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even in one state, northern and southern California are like two separate countries.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Country, Two

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

  Alan Alda

  Sun

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• I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

  Isabel Allende

  Exile, Chile, Mines

  "Of exiles and healers". Interview with Kim Hendry, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 1989.

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• Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

  Stephen Ambrose

  Texas, Would Be, Mexico

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• I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.

  Pamela Anderson

  Girl, California Girls, Ultimate

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

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• I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Born, Oaks

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• I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

  Joseph Barbera

  Disappointment, Despair, Los Angeles

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

  Roseanne Barr

  Bird, Bypass, Surgery

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Trying, Three

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• I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

  Halle Berry

  Rain, Southern, Storm

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• Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

  Jan Brewer

  Jobs, Government, Texas

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

  Stephen Breyer

  San Francisco, Judging, Grew

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• My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, Jazz, Fantastic

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• My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

  Dave Brubeck

  Mother, Children, Play

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• The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

  George W. Bush

  Silly, Science, Power

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

  Chris Christie

  New York, Illinois, America

  "Gov. Chris Christie on McChrystal's Downfall, Battle With Teachers' Unions". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

  Hillary Clinton

  Ohio, Massachusetts, Youth

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• I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Land, Ideas

  "What Drives George Clooney". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

  Gail Collins

  Years, Tuition, States

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Community, World

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• California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

  Jim DeMint

  Cliffs, Trough, Bailouts

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