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Ishmael Reed Writer
California

"How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman."

New York California Epidemics
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Gray Davis Politician
California

"So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market."

Firsts California Flaws
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Pete Wilson Politician
California

"It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth."

Technology Growth California
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Ali MacGraw Actress
California

"I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot."

New York California Santa Fe
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Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar
California

"Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world."

Country Community California
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Theo Rossi Actor
California

"My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with."

California Uncles Motorcycle
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
California

"Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors."

Land Lonely California
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Gary Miller Politician
California

"California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States"

Numbers United States California
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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
California

"I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio."

Writing Couple California
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John Robbins Author, Activist
California

"In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months."

Water California Beef
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Lindsey Shaw Actress
California

"Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up."

School California Soup Kitchens
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Meg Whitman Business Executive
California

"We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses."

Jobs Business California
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