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Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative. -- Hedi Slimane
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. -- Herb Ritts
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. -- Angela Davis
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s. -- Kim Gordon
One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone. -- Pico Iyer
I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me. -- John Darnielle
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country. -- Kevin Starr
You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here. -- Dennis Hopper
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that. -- Kevin Starr

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