California Quotes
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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.
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I didn't start going to concerts until I moved to California.
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I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.
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California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.
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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.
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I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.
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California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.
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Surfing is incredible. It's both meditative and physical. I think it was my way into California.
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California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country.
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California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.
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I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.
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I took the California Highway Patrol exam and didn't pass, so I tried to be a cop and failed.
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California is being overrun by rodents, without immediate emergency action by state and local government, we face significant economic costs and risk a public health crisis.
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There was an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here in California we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
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Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'
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I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.
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California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.
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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.
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
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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.'
