Jimmy Carter Quotes

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

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• I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Me
  • California

• I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Right

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Good
  • Done
  • Home

• I'm really into California art from the '60s.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • California
  • Really

• I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • California

• I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Star

• I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Running
  • Summer
  • Start

• Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • Amazing
  • California

• As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • People
  • Work
  • Inspired

• This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences.

  

  Frederick Reines
  • School
  • California

• I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Up
  • City
  • California

• My father is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, and yes, he was the Terminator! He is also a former Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia, two titles he earned as a champion bodybuilder.

  

  Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • Father
  • Universe
  • California

• My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Present

• One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.

  

  David Boies
  • Education
  • Respect
  • Gay

• I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had the impression when I was in L.A. for long periods of time that simultaneously my life was happening somewhere else, and I'm missing it.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • California

• I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

  

  Al Seckel
  • Live
  • California

• The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Smart

• The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

  

  Jesse Helms
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Study

• Hmm... my bedroom's really messy. It's probably the messiest bedroom you could ever think of. Like, you think it's messy, but when you go there, you can't see one bit of floor anywhere. Clothes, makeup... I'm getting sent loads of clothes and stuff, so it's just piling up everywhere. I've to jump over it in order to get into my bed.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Up
  • Makeup
  • Jump

• Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • California
  • Spread
  • Inclination