"Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Civilization Quotes #California Quotes #America Quotes

“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
“Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.”
“Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.”
“You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last.”

Source : TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.
“Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.”
“I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.”
“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”
“Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.”

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