California Quotes

• My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

  

  Douglass North
  • California

• I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Country
  • Trying

• I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother is 90 percent blind and deaf. She left and moved all the way to California. So I left my two older sisters and my father behind at the age of eleven and moved cross-country to take care of her.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Country
  • She
  • Mother

• Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Walking

• I am most grateful for having bad eyesight, which prevented me from becoming a commercial pilot and instead, led me to having the best job in the world - representing the people of California's 47th Congressional District.

  

  Loretta Sanchez
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

  

  Bert Blyleven
  • Hand
  • Golf
  • California

• When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • Small
  • California

• My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • Great
  • California

• And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • Famous
  • California

• I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Parents
  • Daily
  • Beach

• Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Famous
  • Perspective
  • California

• Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

  

  Bitsie Tulloch
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• PayPal, which was founded in 1998, may be the closest thing to a global currency that has ever been created. Based in San Jose, California, the company operates in 190 markets, sending and receiving payments in 24 currencies on behalf of 90 million active members.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • May
  • California

• I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • People
  • Done
  • Business

• Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Friend

• Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

  

  Billy Joel
  • California
  • Impression
  • Wild West

• I grew up in Southern California. If it's snowing on a day I'm supposed to train, I'll just stare out the window in all my gear and be like, 'Hmmm, maybe not today.' I hate being cold.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Up
  • Today
  • Hate

• I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Struggle

• Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's — the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train — there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Together
  • Black
  • Girl

• I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • People
  • Real
  • Business

• Tia and I have been together for 10 years. Our relationship is not just something that happened overnight. She was with me when I moved to California. I had nothing, and she was established, who had all this money, but she didn't care. That's how I knew she was real.

  

  Cory Hardrict
  • Real
  • Money
  • She

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