Los Angeles Quotes - Page 7

• Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

  Carrie Fisher

  California, Addiction, Repetition

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

  Zev Yaroslavsky

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.

  Margo Kaufman

  Cities, People, Strange

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• Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

  Ethel Waters

  Girl, Years, Long

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• You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution? It would be absurd to say you couldn't do that. And once you acknowledge that, we're into a different game.

  Antonin Scalia

  Blow, Self, Games

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• I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well.

  Baron Davis

  Roots, Underdog, Lakers

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• If Iowa is the 'heart' land, what part of the human body is Los Angeles?

  Pat Paulsen

  Heart, Iowa, Land

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• Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?

  Antonin Scalia

  Blow, Faces, Bombs

  "Scalia accepts infliction of pain to get key information". articles.latimes.com. February 13, 2008.

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• Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?

  Harrison Ford

  New York, Choices, Coins

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

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• I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

  Isaac Asimov

  New York, Diversity, Giving

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• When I began my pilgrimage I left the Los Angeles area without a cent, having faith that God would provide me with everything I needed. Although I have never asked for anything, God has provided me with everything along the way. Without ever asking for anything I've been supplied.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Asking, Have Faith, Way

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Tired, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated with was, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to happen. Obviously, films take a lot of planning, and I wanted something more immediate, and comedy started to become that.

  Amy Seimetz

  San Francisco, Waiting, Frustrated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.

  Vaginal Davis

  New York, Cities, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

  Vaginal Davis

  New York, Thinking, California

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The counties with the highest per capita income aren't near New York City or Los Angeles - they're in the Washington, D.C. area - a one-company town where the company is the government. The three counties with the highest incomes in the entire country are all suburbs of Washington. Eleven of the 25 counties with the highest incomes are near Washington.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, New York, Government

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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, California, Pie

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• I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

  Dennis Prager

  America, Asking, Moral

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• At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance.

  Michelle Malkin

  Sacrifice, Ucla, Years

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• Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint which changes are linked to place. I believe California has made me more polite. I get a little surprised when I rediscover how direct and rude Norwegians can be.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Believe, Moving, Rude

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• The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

  Argus Hamilton

  Virginia, Mind, Pork

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• You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop something off at the dry cleaner, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can bang that out in half an hour.

  Justin Theroux

  New York, Adventure, Shoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like all the clichés. I mean, I love someone who lives in Los Angeles - so that's a big draw. But I love the weather. It does feel like a slightly healthier lifestyle, being able to hike and do all that crap.

  Justin Theroux

  Mean, Weather, Doe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love people-watching at the clubs in Los Angeles, where girls make fools of themselves and guys pay thousands of dollars for a couple of bottles of vodka just so they can get a table. It's quite a scene.

  Jackie Collins

  Girl, Couple, People

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• If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.

  Carlos Mencia

  People, East, Way

  "A Comedian’s Act Is Leaner but Not Meaner". Interview with Joel Keller, www.nytimes.com. November 25, 2011.

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