San Diego Quotes - Page 2

• I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

  Carlos Santana

  Wall, Kindness, Compassion

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• I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

  Jewel

  Coffee, People, Singing

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• Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cities, Two, Gambling

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.

  James F. Amos

  Military, Marine, Islands

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• There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

  Emma Stone

  School, Men, Class

  "Emma Stone: The Cool Girl". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]

  Joss Whedon

  Mom, Strong, Writing

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• I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.

  Jason Mraz

  Beach, Sorry, Moving

  "Jason Mraz Is Turning the Tide". Interview with Anna Griffin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

  Jack London

  Dog, Strong, Hair

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

  James L. Farmer, Jr.

  Years, Cinema, Kind

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• I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Team, Eye, Lame

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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  Danica McKellar

  Couple, Years, Acting

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• And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

  Reba McEntire

  Taken, Two, Flying

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.

  Josh Charles

  Fighting, Law, Ideas

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• I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard thing of just moving without much money and just seeing if I could make it work.

  Doug Benson

  Moving, Standards, Grew

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now the Southwest and Far West. That's why cities have Spanish names: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, etc. All of this is suppressed in standard American history. But the victims remember. The conquerors typically have one history, the victims a different one - and often a more accurate one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Texas, Cities, Names

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• In the beginning I just was dreaming about working in fashion at all, no matter what the role would be, and it just seemed so unlikely. I was living in San Diego and it seemed so far away.

  Rumi Neely

  Dream, Fashion, Would Be

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  School, London, Hometown

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• What crystallized the importance of speaking out like that - of making nonviolence not just a tool or a tactic, but a way of life - was in San Diego [at Comic-Con]. One of the young girls who marched with us was wearing a hijab, and she came up to me afterward because I talked about my beard, and I talked about why I was doing it, and she came up and she gave me a hug, and she was crying. And she said, "Thank you. You have no idea how the other students treat me because they're shown that this is OK by Donald Trump. Thank you for speaking out."

  Andrew Aydin

  Girl, Ideas, Hug

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Moving, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community of San Diego are as important as what he did on the field. What he did on the field was monumental.

  Dan Fouts

  Community, Important, Fields

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• There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time.

  Sara Watkins

  Brother, Night, Years

  "BYT Interviews: Sara Watkins". Interview with Mary Beth McAndrews, brightestyoungthings.com. February 29, 2016.

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• What we've established (in San Diego) with my growing family is hard to re-create. It's hard to up and re-create that. I know that moves are part of life. But that certainty is fair to say that (not being sold on moving to Los Angeles) is part of it. The good thing is I'm not under contract in a year where we'd potentially be in Los Angeles.

  Philip Rivers

  Moving, Years, Growing

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• The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.

  Dorianne Laux

  Dad, Kids, Writing

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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• It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

  Andy Partridge

  Running, Pain, Play

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• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

  Walter Kohn

  Strong, Years, Jewish Identity

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