“When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.” LoveLifeMindHeartPhilosophyFeelingsTruthHappinessFaithChoicesFoundWinningLostJusticeFreedomCompassionFamilyVisionCareersKindnessLearningPlansIgnoranceFriendsConfidenceSelf LoveEvolutionIntegrityLivingPerceptionDignityOvercomingTransformationCompetitionExtremesGoalsHelping OthersClarityJealousyArroganceSelf RespectInsecurityAgendasSpiritual GrowthHeritageSuperiorityIntrospectionSpeculationLife PurposeQuality Of LifeFamiliesHoustonGod S PlanFreemanWrong ChoicesStayingpositiveu ComBad ChoicesCaring Too MuchContradictionsCommonsenseGuardian AngelsLife DirectionLife StoriesConclusionsHidden AgendasMisleadingLack Of IntegrityWhite PathSelf Esteem 101BakersfieldComeback StoriesPlaying FieldCarrFreno Author:Shannon L. Alder
“Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.” FeelsWholeSongSoundChanceSimpleExamplePersonalityTunesBucksStraightforwardBeing StraightforwardBakersfield Author:Juice Newton
“We can bring crews in from other areas, too. If Monterey is hard hit and Bakersfield, for example, is not, we can bring crews in from there.” IfsHardExampleAreasCrewMontereyBakersfield Author:Bryan Swanson
“It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.” PeopleCitiesAirMassTiredClimateClimate ChangeCriticalBreathingDirtyGasFedsLos AngelesFed UpHoustonHigh PricesCritical MassExperiencing SomethingBakersfield Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.” HouseNeededIncomeCaliforniaMexicanPenniesStrawberriesBakersfield Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in) Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)
“I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.” SaidLightHeavenWhiteSawsMinutesWindowPlanesPilotsShockedUfoAmazementNancyStraight UpExtraterrestrialWhite LightBakersfield Author:Ronald Reagan