"I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California."
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"One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts."
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"Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet."
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"Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else."
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"And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling."
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"The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green."
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"In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird.""
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"Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial."
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"There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity."
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"It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over."
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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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"In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000."
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"My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate."
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"How would Elvira run the state of California? Well, there isn't much I could do that is worse than what Arnold Schwarzenegger has done. Running it into the damn ground. If I was running the whole nation? I would have free Netflix movies for everyone."
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"The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected."
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"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that."
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"I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias."
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"In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist."
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"It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California."
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"Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue."
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