I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.
John Gregory Dunne
PeopleCaliforniaSomethingUsIdea
Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
B. Wayne Hughes
FamilyYouWayCaliforniaEverything
We've tried to get as much supply into California as we can.
Kenneth Lay
CaliforniaGetSupplyTriedMuch
Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement.
Meghan Daum
BeautifulLooksPersonCalifornia
I think California has the best energy.
Kevin Gates
BestEnergyThinkCaliforniaI Think
If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
BestCaliforniaSystemWouldEver
Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world.
Kevin de Leon
WorldEnergyDevelopmentCalifornia
The Puente Hills Landfill, about sixteen miles east of downtown Los Angeles, serves 5 million people in seventy-eight California cities, one of six landfills operated by the Sanitation Districts of L.A. County.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
PeopleLos AngelesCaliforniaMiles
In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.
James Garner
OpinionCaliforniaArnoldQualified
You incubate a product in an atmosphere where that product is best incubated. So, for example, we incubated our electric scooter in California. Because it's low-volume manufacturing but high-intelligence, intensive manufacturing, we are starting in Michigan.
Anand Mahindra
BestYouManufacturingCalifornia
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
Helmut Newton
OutdoorsLookKindCaliforniaLike
I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.
Summer Sanders
SwimmingThinkPoolCaliforniaTurn
I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'
Eric Schlosser
FoodWorldCaliforniaProduction
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
Tom Hayden
CaliforniaTwiceBecauseTripsTried
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
Eric Allin Cornell
BornCaliforniaI Was BornAlto
You don't want to upset the people from California. They can outvote you.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
PeopleYouWantUpsetCalifornia
I love California. I love Hollywood.
Dwight Henry
LoveHollywoodCaliforniaI Love
Don Cornelius did not want to see how I really danced - I was doing hip-hop, and it was foreign to people out in California. They only knew about popping and locking, so they were not keen on hip-hop dancing.
Rosie Perez
PeopleDoingWantHip-HopCalifornia
I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.
Craig Venter
HomeAgeWarResultTryCalifornia
Police work was fascinating, and I didn't imagine that acting was something a kid from San Mateo, California, could really pursue.
Michael Trucco
WorkPoliceActingCaliforniaKid
I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.
Bill Skarsgard
NeverCaliforniaYearsLivedSix
I never really felt like I belonged in California.
Molly Ringwald
NeverCaliforniaLikeFeltReally
The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.
Alcee Hastings
ProblemsCongressJudgesCalifornia
I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.
Minka Kelly
ActingCaliforniaOutPursueGet
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