California Quotes
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What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.
David LaChapelle
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In the 1960s, my father chose to introduce Italian-style clothing into a world that was filled with boxy Brooks Brothers suits. So if you were dressing in his clothes in New York or California, you were breaking a rule. And my mother, Risha, who is still living, has always been an activist. I don't think my mom has met a cause she doesn't like.
Chris Meledandri
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Sally Kirkland
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California has been very good to me in terms of the professional arena.
Jimmy Smits
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Dijkstra
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California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
Mario Cuomo
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The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.
Darlene Love
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Liberals from California to Washington are fighting President Trump on illegal immigration.
Matt Rosendale
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
Mara Wilson
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There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing somebody for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
Bill Engvall
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
Taylor Caldwell
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I did this class when I first moved to California. It was a 'Kids on Camera' class up in the Bay Area. That was good for just getting me excited in acting and everything. Then once I started working down L.A., I just stuck to my acting coach, and she helps me prepare with auditions and that sort of thing.
Bridgit Mendler
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Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
Beth Anderson
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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
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One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.
Duncan Hunter
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I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.
Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
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I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
R. Kelly
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Concord, California was a great place to grow up.
Dave Brubeck
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I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.
Bill Skarsgard
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
Sam Shepard
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
Pamela Nicholson
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I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
Danielle Steel
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I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
Ben Harper
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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