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California Quote by Ron Mael

“We would have loved to have stayed in the U.K. but we're creatures of California and we missed the ocean and most of all the sun.” quote by Ron Mael — Download Open image

“We would have loved to have stayed in the U.K. but we're creatures of California and we missed the ocean and most of all the sun.”

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Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

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Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

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The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

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California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

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Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

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These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!

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The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.

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While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

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