California Quotes - Page 5

• Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Men, Eagles

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

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• Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Years, America

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• I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home.

  Gigi Hadid

  Volleyball, Beach, Memories

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

  Norman Lear

  People, Facts, Responsible

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• Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which California officials fully expect to be funded.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bridges, Pie, San Francisco

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• The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

  Dennis Prager

  Order, Europe, Pay

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• California is like the hot blond high school chick who's been getting by on her looks, but now she's 45 and falling apart.

  Adam Carolla

  Fall, School, Hot

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• I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

  Madeline Zima

  Thinking, States, Hated

  Source: collider.com

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• I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• California has rules against assault weapons. It's just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get around them with any sort of semi-automatic rifle.

  Chuck Todd

  Assault Weapons, Rifles, Cosmetics

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

  Clive James

  Smoking, Missing, Restaurants

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• I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Husband, Home

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• They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

  Dan Rather

  Florida, Texas, Burritos

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• In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, 'Cigarette sandwiches - what a great idea.'

  Jay Leno

  Beach, Jobs, Thinking

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

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• The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.

  Christine Jennings

  War, Rocks, Feet

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Ideas, Programming

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• Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Nice, Hollywood

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

  Demetri Martin

  Kids, Skateboarding, Wanted

  "Droll Call! This is an Interview with Demetri Martin". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

  Bo Derek

  Dream, Beach, Horse

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

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• Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

  Walter Winchell

  Funny, Death, Suicide

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• Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

  Candice Bergen

  Funny, Memorable, Hollywood

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• It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Hollywood, Care

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.

  Coley Sohn

  Mom, Gay, Hollywood

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• When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

  Joni Mitchell

  World, Mecca, Young

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• In California in the early Spring,
  There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day,
  The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain -
  Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

  Robert Hass

  Morning, Pain, Spring

  Robert Hass (1979). “Five American poets: Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky”, Persea Books

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