California Quotes

• I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Progress
  • Trouble
  • New York

• I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Different
  • Hope
  • Mistake

• If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • High
  • Like
  • Japan

• My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Mother
  • Father
  • California

• Ever since I was a little girl, I watched many movies, and a lot of them are in California. So I already felt the United States was my home. It wasn't a difficult choice to move here.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Home
  • Girl
  • California

• I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on clinical applications easier.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • California

• I love coming back around Northern California.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • California

• In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Learning
  • Summer
  • Chinese

• Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • California
  • Dope

• I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Death

• I love California. I love Hollywood.

  

  Dwight Henry
  • California

• One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Party
  • Message

• I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • California
  • New York
  • Texas

• I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment. I was lying around naked until I was two, having a good time. I think the California mentality is laid back and I definitely embody that.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

  

  Kenneth Lay
  • Important
  • California

• I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Up
  • California

• The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • World
  • American
  • Future

• I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Rain
  • Storm

• Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Day

• El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • California
  • Southern

• I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Certain
  • Exposure
  • Intrigued

• I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Comedy

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