California Quotes - Page 34

• No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, Artist, Design

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, America, Usa

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• Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

  Carly Fiorina

  Moving, Office, Needs

  "RCP Newsmaker Interview With Carly Fiorina". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 5, 2010.

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• I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

  Rick Perry

  Oklahoma, Texas, Looks

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• My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Michelle Pfeiffer - What She Did for Love". Interview with Liz Smith, www.goodhousekeeping.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

  Paula Poundstone

  Alaska, Taught Us, Presidential

  "Thanksgiving Is Not Just for Leftovers" by Paula Poundstone, November 26, 2008.

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• I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

  Ishmael Reed

  Jobs, Hippie, Liberty

  Interview with Reginald Martin, www.dalkeyarchive.com. July, 1983.

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• California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

  Eric Ripert

  Winter, Florida, Weather

  "Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS + Le Bernardin's Numbers". LA Weekly Interview, www.laweekly.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

  Henry Rollins

  Office, Body, Want

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. May 12, 2006.

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• I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

  Mickey Rourke

  Boxing, Balance, Surfer

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• There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

  Jerry Saltz

  Sunday, Santa Barbara, Color

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• In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, People, East

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

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• California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, Starbucks, Stores

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• And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Selling, States, Courses

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

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• Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Unique, Growth, Driving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Spending, More Money

  "Cable Exclusive: Arnold Schwarzenegger opens up on personal and professional failures". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.

  Jill Scott

  Wind, Joy, Cry

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• I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, Philadelphia, Track

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• Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Sex, Stars

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• For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.

  Patti Stanger

  Beach, Cheerleading, Kids

  "Patti Stanger, Millionaire Matchmaker, On New York Women, Marc Anthony, Season 5". Interview with Youyoung Lee, August 1, 2011.

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• I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

  Danielle Steel

  Beach, Moving, Paris

  "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

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• The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Kids, Rights

  "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

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• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  Parker Stevenson

  Dark, Islands, Blue

  "Maine (Celebrate the States)". Book by Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart, 2010.

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• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Growing Up, Kids

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

  James Surowiecki

  Beach, Lovely, Climate

  "Debtor States". www.newyorker.com. April 12, 2010.

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