California Quotes - Page 4

• If you have a good story, it doesn’t have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the human spirit and the richness of life in California, including its history, people, culture and natural wonders.

  Huell Howser

  Richness Of Life, People, Culture

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

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• When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who are wearing sandals, Indian smocks, and are in search of enlightenment, antiquity, peace, and all the things they can't get in the west. Most of the people they meet are Nepali villagers in Lee jeans, Reeboks, and Madonna T-shirts who are looking for the paradise that they associate with Los Angeles - a paradise of material prosperity and abundance.

  Pico Iyer

  Jeans, People, Enlightenment

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• The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Rain, Mean, Marijuana

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• The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Earth, Palate, Smack

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• Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, People

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• The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California.

  Jimmy Fallon

  White, House, Pushing

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger is gonna be the new governor of California. During his acceptance speech Arnold said 'I will not let you down.' Unfortunately, at the time Arnold was holding a woman over his head and looking up her dress.

  Conan O'Brien

  Acceptance, Speech, Dresses

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• Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Country, Yesterday

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. He is a very shrewd man - he already has all of his sex scandals behind him.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Men, Scandal

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• Arnold was on the 'Today' show today, he was a little light on specifics. He said he could solve California's $38 billion budget deficit, without cutting spending or raising taxes because there was a third way. What is it? Let's just say it involves a robot going back in time to convince Gray Davis to go into dentistry.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, Light, Littles

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• I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.

  Joey King

  Adventure, Disneyland

  "Joey King Talks Playing Two Characters, Making Adults Put Money in a Swear Jar, and More on the Set of OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 31, 2013.

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• California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

  Molly Ivins

  Civilization, Doe, Prison

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• The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.

  Joan Didion

  Believe, Ease, Way

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.41, Zola Books

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• Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

  Joan Didion

  Childhood, Chicago, Vermont

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.128, Zola Books

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• Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

  Joan Didion

  Iowa, Land, West Coast

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.31, Zola Books

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• [Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Years, Way

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• You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.

  Greg Abbott

  Thinking, Government, Pathways

  "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.

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• The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

  Bryan Burrough

  Beach, Manhattan, Way

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• California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, Uneasy, Suspension

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.125, Zola Books

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• You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Wise, Country

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• Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Cities, Shoes, Portland

  "Bitsie Tulloch Takes Us Behind-the-Scenes of Grimm and Spills Her Favorite Obsessions!". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Earlier tonight the second Republican debate took place here in California. With 10 men and only one woman, everyone thought they were watching 'The Bachelorette.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Men, Tonight, Republican

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• The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Artist, Dope, Dancer

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• You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

  Dennis Hopper

  Art, Mean, Photograph

  Dennis Hopper, Nick Dawson (2012). “Dennis Hopper: Interviews”, p.173, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

  Al Jardine

  World, Driving, Coastline

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