California Quotes
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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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I took the California Highway Patrol exam and didn't pass, so I tried to be a cop and failed.
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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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I didn't start going to concerts until I moved to California.
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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.
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California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
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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.
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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 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.
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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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California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
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There's no California tan about me. People assume I can't tan, but I actually can. I went on a trip to Hawaii when I was younger and came back so tan that people were like, 'What happened?' It's just not something I actively do. I want to embrace my ivory.
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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 like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.
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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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And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.
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One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!
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I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.
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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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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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Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
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The thing I keep hearing from folks is that they can’t afford to live in California anymore and they cannot stomach living in California anymore.
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California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country.
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
