California Quotes - Page 38

• People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.

  Brian Wilson

  Girl, Song, Pain

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• The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

  John Moody

  Discovery, Gold, Lines

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• And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

  John Sexton

  Southern, Months, Live For Today

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• For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

  Kevin James

  Thinking, East, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

  Spencer Johnson

  Doctors, Parent, Hollywood

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• Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and the grandeur which envelops the whole horizon. Often, when the clouds pile up in the north and the sea is churned with white caps, I say to myself: "This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked out on from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Clouds, Years

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

  John Moody

  People, Development, Half

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

  Ridley Scott

  Wine, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a "cheap state" for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont - compared to New York or California or Illinois - that's small potatoes.

  Bernie Sanders

  New York, Illinois, Numbers

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

  Bruce Dern

  Actors, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

  Lamar Alexander

  Buddhist, Southern, Ironic

  "Republicans hammer Gore over U.S. policy toward China" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. March 10, 1999.

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• California has more distractions, more activities for the kids, more driving.

  Laird Hamilton

  Kids, Driving, Distraction

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers.

  Alan Abel

  Animal, Santa Barbara, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton, Florida 2000, and the recall in California, I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything to win an election-except get the most votes.

  Bill Maher

  Winning, Thinking, Florida

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• I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Couple, Cells

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

  Kevin Nealon

  Moving, Missing, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.

  Marc Levine

  Running, Rivers, Water

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

  Marc Levine

  Years, Play, Australia

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

  Marc Levine

  Battle, Lasts, Historic

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Wine, Marijuana, California Coast

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.

  Joe McNally

  Lunch, Google, Taco Bell

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• California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming. We won't wait for the federal government. We will move forward because we know it's the right thing to do. We will lead on this issue and we will get other western states involved. I think there's not great leadership from the federal government when it comes to protecting the environment.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strong, Moving Forward, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.

  Jerry Jones

  Team, Southern, Focus

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• I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Leadership, People, Want

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

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• Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

  Meg Whitman

  Education, Country, Fall

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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