West Coast Quotes

• Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

  Paul Walker

  Attitude, East, Gangsters

  "Paul Walker & Wayne Kramer —Running Scared". Groucho Reviews Interview, www.grouchoreviews.com. December 11, 2006.

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• More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Errors, People

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• We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

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• Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

  Lana Del Rey

  Feelings, Happens, West

  Song: West Coast Lana Del Rey, Album: Ultraviolence, 2014

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• In America, the colors sing, they don't just glower at you. The West Coast especially is fantastic. It seems like you can do whatever you want here.

  Stanley Donwood

  Color, America, Want

  "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Faith, Inspiration, Responsibility

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast.... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet.

  Edmund White

  Sweet, Glasses, West

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.1, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.

  Helen Thomas

  War, Moving, Order

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• The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a different quality of life. New York is great when you're in your early 20s and you're running around and it's really fun, but it's a place for me to get things done.

  Erin Wasson

  Running, New York, Fun

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• Oceans need more attention because climate change IS an ocean issue. Our oceans will be the first victim, and sea life will suffer dramatically. Detailed proof is hard in ocean science, but I think we're already seeing big ocean changes caused by climate change, such as starvation of whales, seabirds, and other animals off the coast US west coast.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.

  Jason Reeves

  Healing, Thinking, Light

  Source: itcouldbemainstream.blogspot.com

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• You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote.

  Seth Avett

  Song, Appreciate, Simplicity

  "Banjo Players Are Incestuous Rednecks". Interview with Karmah Elmusa, www.motherjones.com. July 16, 2011.

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• All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.

  Charles de Lint

  Rain, Mean, Voice

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• The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in the southwestern United States or along the Eastern Seaboard.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, West, Majority

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• There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

  Andy Williams

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

  Cat Deeley

  Style, Laid Back, British

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• I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

  Victoria Chang

  Community, Spread, Isolated

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.

  Lexa Doig

  Girl, Easter, East Coast

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• A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America.

  Cormega

  New York, Thinking, America

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• I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

  Marian McPartland

  New York, Rhythm, Spread

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Country, West, Legacy

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• When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  New York, Revolutionary, Left

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

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• I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

  Tessa Thompson

  East, Splits, Los Angeles

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

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• When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

  Tommy Bolin

  Mind, East, Midwest

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• Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

  Ville Valo

  Running, Redneck, East

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