California Quotes - Page 37

• Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

  Eleanor Antin

  Beautiful, Good Life, Dark

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• Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

  Doug Ose

  Energy, Negative, Economy

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 11, 2001.

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• I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

  John Scalzi

  Southern, Cliche, Grew Up

  "John Scalzi: the internet's troll-slayer" by Erin McCann, August 27, 2013.

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• I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

  Christine Feehan

  Beautiful, Hiking, Whales

  Christine Feehan (2016). “Fire Bound”, p.200, Penguin

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• As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

  Richard Carmona

  Men, Epidemics, San Francisco

  "Surgeon General Koop: The Legacy of a Health Warrior" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

  Janice Hahn

  Issues, People, Southern

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• I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Cowboy, Technology, Government

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• How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

  David Letterman

  Guy, Election, Kind

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• When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, “hurt feelings” is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.

  Sue Johnson

  Hurt, Pain, Rejection

  Sue Johnson, Kenneth Sanderfer (2016). “Created for Connection: The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

  Tom Hayden

  Block, Republican, Hanoi

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night and even the terrestial seasons...But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should, as much as possible, resemble Southern California.

  Lance Morrow

  Night, Men, Thinking

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• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  G-Eazy

  Oakland, Grew Up, Berkeley

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• If you're in California and it's raining, stay home, because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

  Adam Ferrara

  Rain, Home, Frogs

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• I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

  Joseph DeRisi

  Rising, Tuition, Affordable

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• Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

  Edward Everett

  Lying, Blessed, Gold

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• I remain California-bound

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Bounds

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• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  Summer Sanders

  Dad, Swimming, Thinking

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• Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

  Mae West

  Movie, Dream, Feelings

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• The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.

  Anna Quindlen

  Country, Diversity, Liberty

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.

  Calvin Trillin

  Islands, Long, One Day

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• It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

  Robert Towne

  Past, Capes, Towns

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• The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Technology, Valleys, Development

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• During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

  Marlee Matlin

  Father, Grandmother, Parent

  "My Father’s Chutzpah" by Marlee Matlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011.

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• My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• If someone did this Fahrenheit 9/11 to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, D.C., and the planes' destination of California - these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!

  Michael Moore

  New York, Boston, People

  "The Importance of Being Michael Moore" by Mark Steyn, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2004.

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