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Quotes tagged “Los Angeles”

“Gunfire broke out early Monday aboard a San Francisco-bound Greyhound bus outside Los Angeles, killing one and injuring five, KTLA and other local media outlets report.”
— Don Sweeney, One dead after gunman opens fire on Greyhound bus bound for San Francisco, cops say
Tagged: Greyhound, shooting, Los Angeles
“James Holland: Where did you kill the most?

Samuel Little: Oh that's easy, Florida and California.

James Holland: What city did you kill the most in?

Samuel Little: Miami and Los Angeles.

James Holland: And how many did you kill in Los Angeles.

Samuel Little: Los Angeles, approximately 20.”
— Samuel Little, How a Texas Ranger convinced serial killer Samuel Little to confess to murdering 93 people
Tagged: serial killer, Los Angeles, Miami, California, Florida
“Los Angeles, a City Known for Its Freeways, Is About to Plant a Shit Ton of Trees”
— Jackie Mogensen, Los Angeles, a city known for its freeways, is about to plant a shit ton of trees
Tagged: Los Angeles
“A paradise dreamscape erected in a barren desert, L.A. has always been an impossible city, as Mike Davis has so brilliantly written.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: Los Angeles, Impossible City
“Howard: I’ll tell you something. I went to LA, and I smoked weed. And it almost killed me. Why is it so much stronger now? Seriously, don’t you get paranoid at all when you smoke this stuff?

Snoop Dogg: I get paranoid that they gonna stop making it.”
— Snoop Dogg, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Marijuana, Los Angeles, Paranoia
“In the nine days from April 25 to May 3 this year, L.A.'s 311 service request system received more than 1,200 reports related to scooters — from bad parking to broken vehicles. That averages out to about 133 scooter complaints per day, or more than five an hour.”
— Ryan Fonseca, Scooters, Scooters Everywhere. Here's How LA's Grand Experiment Is Going
Tagged: Transportation, Scooters, Los Angeles
“For 70 years, many residents ignored the L.A. River. But new efforts to revitalize the city’s main waterway threaten to alter its role in the lives of neighbors who use it every day.”
— Samanta Helou Hernandez, Documenting the Culture of the L.A. River
Tagged: Los Angeles, Los Angeles River, Urban Renewal
“I want my work to be in unconventional places. You write in poetry journals to get fellowships and grants, not for an audience. My readers don’t read journals — they are homegirls that normally wouldn’t be interested in poetry or they’ve always read poetry and find me.”
— Yesika Salgado, Poet Yesika Salgado blew up on Instagram. Now her books are breaking literary boundaries
Tagged: Poet, Feminist, Los Angeles
“Right now, drivers pay to enjoy mobility, but the cost to the environment and to people’s health isn’t fully reflected in the price we pay to drive.”
— Peter Walker, How Cycling Can Save the World
Tagged: Cycling, Transportation, Mobility, Bicycling Quote, Everyday cycling, Los Angeles, public health, Environmental Costs
“A study [...] around a fifteen-block area of Los Angeles found the average person drove half a mile looking for parking, making for a combined annual 950,000 wasted vehicle miles [per year] in just that area. “If all this happens in one small business district, imagine the cumulative effect of all cruising in the United States.””
— Peter Walker, How Cycling Can Save the World
Tagged: Cycling, Transportation, Mobility, Bicycling Quote, Everyday cycling, Los Angeles
“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.”
— John Fante, Ask the Dust
Tagged: Los Angeles
“What's great about Los Angeles is nobody cares where you're from or who you are. It's a superficial town where you can worry about stupid shit like keeping your pool clean, and what artisanal nuts to put on your salad.”
— BoJack Horseman (voice), BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman Season 1: Live Fast, Diane Nguyen
Tagged: Los Angeles, LA
“Jay: So let's have a butt.

Max: No thanks, I don't smoke.

Ernie 'Ice': They're very health-conscious in Los Angeles. [Jay and Ice laugh]

Jay: You got any cash, Hollywood?

Max: No.

Ernie 'Ice': Gee, we don't get any smokes from you. We don't get any cash. What am I supposed to do with my afternoon?

Max: Maybe you could learn to breathe through your nose. [Jay laughs but stops as Ice offensively glares at him]

Jay: Whoa. Check out the new cross-trainers.

Ernie 'Ice': [looks at Max's sneakers] Cool. [turns to Max] Let me try them on. [Max tries to leave, Jay stops him and smiles]

Jay: Later, dude!

Ernie 'Ice': See you, Hollywood! [Jay and Ernie laughing]”
— Ernie / 'Ice', Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Cigarettes, Los Angeles
“L.A. is not a pedestrian-friendly city.”
— Nick Clark, Fear the Walking Dead, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Los Angeles, Pedestrian Friendly
“Los Angeles is not what you see in the movies. It's like Detroit with palm trees.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 6: In Care Of
Tagged: Los Angeles, Movies, Detroit, Palm Trees
“Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult—it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.”
— Julia Roberts
Tagged: Los Angeles, celebrity
“Living in L.A. was incredible. I’m an English boy, and I love being in London, but I miss living in America, because we were welcomed with opened arms.”
— David Beckham, David Beckham on Retirement and Protecting Son Brooklyn: "He's Going to Make His Mistakes"
Tagged: Los Angeles, LA, London, America
“I swear to God, there is no more liberating and fun thing to do in this world than scream in your best aggressive black guy voice. Holy shit. So much fun. I highly recommend you do it. Not if you’re black. If you’re black, you already do it. But if you’re white, do it. Do it in public. Do it where there are black people. And here’s a little secret, if you do it well, there is a possibility that a black guy will yell back in return. I do it all the time. I live in Los Angeles. Pick your spot. I go to Crenshaw. There’s never a shortage there. I do. I hang back and I go, 'hey, yo!' And sometimes… sometimes, a black guy’ll go, ‘sup, D?’”
— Tom Segura, Tom Segura: Completely Normal
Tagged: Black Guy Voice, Los Angeles, Crenshaw Boulevard
“Los Angeles plays small ball really well. What’s missing oftentimes is the ability to bring the entire community together on behalf of issues or opportunities that will benefit the community as a whole.”
— Austin Beutner, A Paper Tears Apart in a City That Never Quite Came Together
Tagged: Los Angeles, Sense of community, Solving Political Problems, Gridlock, Homelessness
“Jerry. It's L.A. Nobody leaves. She's a seductress, she's a siren, she's a virgin, she's a whore.”
— Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld, Season 9: The Finale
Tagged: LA, Los Angeles, Whore

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