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Not who you're looking for? Others named L.A.: song of Neil Young · album by The Beach Boys · 2001 extended play by Teddy Thompson
“Not so long ago, I examined some maps showing juvenile delinquency, diptheria, tuberculosis and murder quotients in a number of cities from New Orleans to Los Angeles. The maps all looked alike. Disease, crime and delinquency were invariably grouped in the same parts of the cities — in the slum districts. That is the cause of crime, not the motion picture.”
“I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York. "What're y'all doin'? Talkin' to TV producers, huh? Bummer. Me? I'm readin' a book! Yeah, we're thinkin' back East! Yeah, we're evolving. Is that "The Big One" I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum, bye!"”
“Then, she take it all in. Best kush filling my joints. Say, I sound too L.A.? That's the point!”
“They call it the City of Angels. Funny. In my 30 years here, I haven't seen a single one. My old friend Henry Wilson used to say, people dare to dream here. He liked that about L.A. I'd say, bull, dreaming will get you killed. Maybe I was right.”
“I live in the Mexican part of L.A.; it's called L.A.”
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
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