Best California Wisdom
808 California quotes by 648 unique authors
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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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I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the…
— David Talbot
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Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers…
— Ford Frick
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I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.
— Chuck Zito
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Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed, the evidence shows…
— Unknown Author
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America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our…
— Charles A. Reich
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I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and…
— Cobi Jones
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What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Everyone in California is from somewhere else.
— Wright Morris
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I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.
— Phillip Lim
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I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away…
— Carlos Bulosan
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I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.
— Brian Bosworth
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California.…
— Parker Stevenson
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot…
— Parker Stevenson
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Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged…
— Eric Schlosser
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I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And…
— Tracy K. Smith
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In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave…
— Rush Limbaugh
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There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose…
— James Sinegal
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Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.
— Unknown Author
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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff…
— Mark Twain
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Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain…
— James Bovard
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You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
— Wanda Jackson
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Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft
— Mary Schmich
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