#california

When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the big angry city hanging over the shoulder of the hills through which the boulevard had been cut. Far off the banshee wail of police or fire sirens rose and fell, never for very long completely silent. Twenty four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes, people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick; bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn't have one. I didn't care. I finished the drink and went to bed. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#disillusionment #los-angeles #southern-california #home

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#being #california #cease #come #mightily

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#california #course #graduate #i #i am

Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#bobby #california #four #gang #i

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#been #born #california #diverse #first

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#bad government #because #build #businesses #california

There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#i #parties #plural #say #tea

Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#california #elected #enough #first #fortunate

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. ↗

— Dave Foley

#angeles #california #fantastic #los #los angeles

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. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#enough #executives #i #i think #matured