When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
Ahmet Ertegun
SmallArtistCaliforniaFirstHe
It's a misconception that you don't have seasons in southern California. They are just very subtle. The vegetation is very different. Plants react differently. You just have to be a little more observant.
Christoph Waltz
PlantsSeasonsYouReactCalifornia
The iPhone is like 'omakase', the style of sushi where the chef chooses what you're going to eat, and might even tell you how to eat it - no wasabi allowed on this, no soy sauce allowed on that. Definitely no California rolls.
Daniel Lyons
StyleChefYouSushiCaliforniaEat
California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle.
Chuck Eddy
SweetCaliforniaMovementClubHer
My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
Ben Affleck
FatherDriveYearTalkCalifornia
I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.
Bryan Greenberg
WorkGoActorCaliforniaMove
When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first went from being a musician to making beats and producing. I was 18, 19. It started going pretty good for me out there in California, so I stayed in SF while my parents moved to Georgia.
Zaytoven
GoodParentsMeCaliforniaFirst
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
Ava DuVernay
FatherMotherCaliforniaAlabama
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
Warren Beatty
PeopleSayUnderestimateCalifornia
The states that have large in-migrations of Hispanics are Florida, Texas and California. And Florida and Texas are way above average in educational achievement, while California's the lowest, just about.
Arthur Laffer
AchievementTexasWayCalifornia
I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
Sam Shepard
ChildHouseCaliforniaOldRanch
It's always bothersome when California does something better than Texas.
Pete Gallego
TexasBetterCaliforniaAlwaysThan
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
Parker Stevenson
BlueGreenYouFindDarkCalifornia
In California, you're on a first-name basis with fruit. You take a beautiful Blenheim, you don't want to mess with it.
Sherry Yard
BeautifulFruitYouWantCalifornia
If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion
InternetMy OwnLotteryCalifornia
In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.
Thomas Mars
StrongCaliforniaTensionBetween
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
Kamala Harris
WorkJusticeRedemptionCalifornia
By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after.
Rick Scott
PeopleOpportunitiesLoseCalifornia
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.
Jimmy Gomez
ChangeLawClimate ChangeCalifornia
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
GoodRainStormMoreCaliforniaUse
On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.
Ric Keller
MeBorderCaliforniaSameMexico
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.
Joan Didion
PeopleLeavingCaliforniaEverything
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
Gail Collins
FriendsYearBackCaliforniaTuition
In December 2011, a wild gray wolf set foot in California, the first sighting in almost a century. He'd wandered in from Oregon, looking for a mate.
Lydia Millet
LookingWolfGrayCaliforniaWild
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