One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.
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Related Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts... THOMAS PYNCHON I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never... RICHARD MURDOCH As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed... KIDADA JONES You're my first British visitor, OPRAH WINFREY It's not like driving the freeways of California. It's dog-eat-dog out here. You have to have water ... RON WHITE I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro ... ARIJIT SINGH There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the f... ALISON LURIE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Government must make the public transport affordable for the user for it to be a success. Increasing... JOSEPH MUSCAT It must have been a tough decision for Jurgen. He took all six athletes involved by surprise but I h... JAMES CRACKNELL To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. OSCAR WILDE To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity OSCAR WILDE He never indicated to us that he was willing to teach the class. He is one of the few people in Sout... DAVID MATTHEWS Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, ac... STEVE HARVEY the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM I've learned a lot of life lessons from Lee Corso. One of those lessons is that great jobs rarely be... MIKE TIRICO I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to... BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN I raised Christopher to cherish life and to cherish each other every single day, ... Christopher was... CHRISTOPHER WALLACE The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. BLAISE PASCAL The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. T. S. ELIOT We are at a critical threshold. We are going to make decisions within the next year that are either ... BILL JENNINGS I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tend... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. FRED A. ALLEN The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. FRED ALLEN You won't see a Southern California-has-got-to-have-it debate. JEFFREY KIGHTLINGER A child will behave as he has been taught. Tolerance is one of the first lessons to be learnt. VIKRANT PARSAI I don't care what color his socks are, or what color sheets he sleeps between. Christopher Meyer ...... DENIS MACSHANE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It was one of those things that Troy kind of got stuck with his back towards the field and his only ... TYRONE MARSHALL I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely ... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day. PAUL WALKER You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming o... BRANDI CARLILE Before I took lessons, I wouldn't be the first one out on a dance floor. And I certainly would shy a... EMILY ZYWICKE One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, f... GEORGE WASHINGTON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California. NORA EPHRON Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another o... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually... KING TUFF A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thin... CONAN O'BRIEN I must say that in the last 20 years, I don't know of one zoo visitor that has been killed or maimed... JACK HANNA Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the Uni... RUTH J. SIMMONS Most people's car last longer than their marriage. WHY? For instance in Germany, the government made... PATIENCE JOHNSON This is a national problem being dumped on Southern California. JOHN HUSING I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of a... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE From the first day I saw this car I've dreamt of driving it, ... This has been a dream come true. BOBBY RAHAL From the first day ... BOBBY RAHAL You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS Southern California was for a long time the vineyard of tennis. BUD COLLINS I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly su... ANDRA DAY Now, 'that sort of Bear' is of course a bear who wants to be flattered, and it is plain that ... FREDERICK C. CREWS [Lee] was the one guy, I think, in the lineup that the opposing team really, really feared. Even on ... JUAN PIERRE I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world. AL JARDINE Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as ... RICHARD ROGERS I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ... MAX VON ESSEN I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is drivin... KEVIN O'LEARY I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is drivin... KEVIN O'LEARY When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Sout... DORIS LESSING He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just se... J.D. SALINGER It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyon... VEERAPPA MOILY We are speculating that she knew she was driving on a suspended license and had drugs in the car so ... BILL PROFFITT If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs ... BRIAN MACLEARN California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn th... GAVIN NEWSOM I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. One good thing about lovers is that they don't take up much room on public transport. P.K. SHAW A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER A life without problems is a life less likely to be. VANCE B.. CHAN Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who... HILDA SOLIS My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told ... JULIA ROBERTS People realize that what we have here is a rare scene, a preservation of our culture. And so they co... RICHARD HARRIS The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I thought of my child...driving a black car. BRYAN TAYLOR I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corpo... MARY HARRIS JONES In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,'... CARROLL SHELBY When I first had it amputated I didn't know what to expect. I didn't take into consideration the lit... HOPE BEVILHYMER Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE A student at Northeastern could fly to [University of Southern California] in California and, if reg... LEROY J. WATKINS The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyon... PARKER STEVENSON Have you been to a place where no one have been before? I give you the answer: Yes! Everywhere chang... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When Ben took the job to go up to Cleveland, one of the first things I did was I gave Nate a call, ROBERT MASSEY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Stopping bad things is a significant public service. TED CRUZ There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure ROSS MACDONALD There’s more.” “Of course there is,” Brishen said flatly. It had started badly; i... GRACE DRAVEN I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a... MILO YIANNOPOULOS Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK
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much attention. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS