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You haven't lived until you've died in California. — Mort Sahl

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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. — George W. Bush

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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. — Will Rogers

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California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world [...] You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time – you're going to have to make it. — Bill Clinton

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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. — Alison Lurie

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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. — Edward Abbey

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They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale. — Dan Rather

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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. — Gloria Swanson

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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. — Fred Allen

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I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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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 — Woody Guthrie

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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny. — William McKinley

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In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. — Woody Allen

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Saul Bellow (left) California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. — Saul Bellow

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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. — Gray Davis

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Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. — Brian Ferneyhough

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California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands. — Paul Mazursky

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I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much. — Jimmy Smits

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I move between San Francisco and Paris [...] I have a wonderful beach house in California. — Danielle Steel

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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. — Ricky Williams