Los Angeles Quotes - Page 35

• I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

  Edward Ruscha

  Taken, California, Knowing

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

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• I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Superfluous, Presses

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

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• In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

  Jared Diamond

  People, Water, Community

  "Why societies collapse". www.abc.net.au. July 17, 2003.

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• Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

  Michael Connelly

  Running, Dream, Anchors

  Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

  David Geffen

  Want, Failing, Music Business

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• I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.

  Helen Mirren

  Tea, Bags, London

  “Helen Mirren: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Believe, Reality

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• To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.

  Eli Broad

  Appreciation, Money, Art

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• From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.

  Steve Carell

  Dog, Sticks, Meat

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• When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

  Carolina Herrera

  Milk And Honey, Heaven, Flying

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• The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Angel, Heaven, Dodgers

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• So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

  George Carlin

  Airports, Innocence, Goofy

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

  Jensen Ackles

  Jobs, Father, School

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• Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.

  Richard Riordan

  Book, Passion, Library

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• My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

  Emma Stone

  Mom, Goal, Parent

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• I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Religious, Political, Calling

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• If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dna, Cells, Two

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.71, Penguin

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• The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

  Albert Einstein

  New York, Cat, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

  Julie Delpy

  New York, Paris, Roots

  "French connected". Interview with Marianne Gray, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day long. And I eat a lot of superfoods like goji, cacao and chia seeds, things like that. And I like unpasteurised milk of the goat and the sheep. They send it once a week from Pennsylvania, from the Amish farms, and I get it in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Gallo

  Sheep, Eggs, Long

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• I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

  Penelope Cruz

  Two, Want, Firsts

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

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• I've decided to become a member of the Houston Rockets. I feel it's the best place for me and I am excited about joining the Rockets and I'm looking forward to a great season. I want to thank the fans in Los Angeles and wish them the best.

  Dwight Howard

  Wish, Rockets, Fans

  FaceBook post by Dwight Howard from Jul 06, 2013

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• The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.

  Jeff Cooper

  War, Fighting, Loss

  Guns and Ammo Magazine, April 1991.

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• I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

  Steven Morrissey

  Normal, Ifs

  "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2003.

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• To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, People, Beverly Hills

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