I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
I would say ‘struggling’ is a good word. We were all struggling to keep doing what we were doing, and more things were expected of us. I mean, one of the big things was how in the world are we going to top ‘Hotel California?’
In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner’s early novels.
I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents’ friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
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.
I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.
I’m a sixth-generation Texan, even though I was born in California.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.
I didn’t really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that’s part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don’t have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.
What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
My family actually owns an MMA promotion company, so it’s kind of a family deal. It’s called Fight Sports Entertainment, and they throw amateur fights in California. Because of that, I’ve given my mom a lot of the fighters to fight in a show.
I don’t like the sun, but I live in California.
I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.
The national polls are distorted. To get a national sample, they rely too much on Hispanics from New York and California, which is where large populations are but also where most of the radical Hispanics are.
Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California’s economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that’s less than 20 miles from Selma.
When I finish as the host of ‘Jeopardy!’ I’m going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.
When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn’t that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
I like California wine, I really like wines from Washington state. I love wines from Spain and Italy. I don’t know about French wines at all.
I’ve been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.
I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
Although I’m living in California, I’m very proud to be British.
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it’s where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.
If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place – I like the people and the environment.
I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.
California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.
I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.
The states that have large in-migrations of Hispanics are Florida, Texas and California. And Florida and Texas are way above average in educational achievement, while California’s the lowest, just about.
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.
In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.
Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it’s a McDonald’s in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.
My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.
We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that’s where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.
I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.
I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made ‘Freestylin’ – Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman.
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I’d grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn’t look back.
Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.
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.
Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.
I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, ‘Oh, I’ll never be locked up again. They’re not taking away my privacy.’ So I flipped a coin: heads – Miami, tails -California.
I was married to someone who had more money than me, but because I was the stronger earner and we lived in California – a shocking thing slapped me in the face when we divorced and I had to end up paying him my earnings.
That’s what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.
We have, here in California, among the most ambitious climate goals in the country. It’s not just our political leaders or our regulators that really wants these things.
There are times when you do have to bring animals into captivity to save a species like California Condors, or Arabian Aurochs. But they have something called species survival plans, and they do it in a very thoughtful way and are careful with the genetics.
This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences.
I’m a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started ‘California,’ my son wasn’t even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother – so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
