"We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!"
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"It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]"
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"And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California."
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"Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in."
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"Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health."
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"Do Re Mi California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi"
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"I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California."
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"The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country."
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"The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses."
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"I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods."
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"I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children."
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"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."
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"That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written."
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"whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California."
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"In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie."
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"The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson."
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"Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California."
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"I remain California-bound"
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"The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity."
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"For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It seems to show up there most clearly. They had a helmet law for motorcycles in California and the bikies were saying things like, "It restricts my vision. I can't hear what my bike's doing. If it was on fire I wouldn't know it until my ass caught." And at the bottom line what the bikies were saying was, "Look, it's my goddamn head and if I want to splatter my brains all over the guardrails on the Coast Highway, super for me.""
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