California Quotes
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The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.
David Swanson
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A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.
Joan Didion
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One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.
Amor Towles
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Surfing is incredible. It's both meditative and physical. I think it was my way into California.
Rachel Morrison
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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.
Catherine Crier
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As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.
Jimmy Gomez
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Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
Meg Whitman
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I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.
Mike Curb
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Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
Gertrude Atherton
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I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Henry Hopper
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I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.
Troy Polamalu
