San Francisco Quotes - Page 10

• I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Iowa, Trying

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.71, Penguin

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• I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Team, Winning

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• What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

  Ed Lee

  Attitude, Mistake, People

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• The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• San Francisco hosted the first medical marijuana job fair. The keynote speech was titled, 'Jobs and How to Avoid Getting One.'

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Marijuana, Speech

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• If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Military, Blow

  "The Radio Factor", November 8, 2005.

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• But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Hands, Class, Crowds

  Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in Harper's Magazine, February 2000.

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• In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play

  Danny Glover

  Communication, Play, Community

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• I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

  Gary Cole

  School, Television, Shows

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• I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish

  Terry Bradshaw

  Heart, Men, Singing

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• After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

  Colleen Haskell

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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• I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Artist, Thinking, World

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• Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

  John Ensign

  Oakland, Competition, Miami

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• There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

  Don Bassingthwaite

  Friendship, Betrayal, Eye

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• When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And I remember the mother saying, tell Jeffrey to go home. And I said to the girl, I said, why? She goes, my mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Girl, Mother, Home

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Travel, Destiny

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.28, Great West Books

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• I was a social recluse for most of my life, and so a lot of relationships I've been in have been formed online. I met my first boyfriend online at 15, which culminated in me running away to San Francisco to be with him.

  Marie Calloway

  Running, Firsts, Online

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I heard it [ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ] earlier. This was being played on a station in San Francisco called Live 105, which was a new wave station. It was one of the first stations to change its format in the early '80s. There was this wave of really strange music coming from Europe like Kraftwork and Freur.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Europe, Days Off

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.

  Elton John

  Sex, America, Firsts

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". WBUR Interview, www.wbur.org. September 23, 2013.

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• I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at a ski resort one summer. He died in 1983. Only in 1999 or so, 2000, when I was working as an editor at San Francisco Magazine, did I really come back around to that name because Stanford University had just acquired the archive.

  Jonathon Keats

  Summer, Growing Up, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as immoral but one day it dawned on me that I didn't know what that meant. I signed up for an ethics class at San Francisco State to find out the answer.

  Dale Jamieson

  War, College, Class

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I lived in San Francisco for about eight years and I did a lot of improvisation there. The improvisational world ruled the voice world in San Francisco, so I became a voice talent there and did a lot of commercials and worked all the time. But I never could break into animation.

  Amy Hill

  Eight, Years, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

  Dar Williams

  Roots, Portland, Feels

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Tape, Kind, Pool

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.

  Barry McGee

  Inspiration, Cities, Inspire

  "'It Is Ultimately About Freedom': Barry McGee on His Prism Gallery Show and Berkeley Museum Retrospective". ARTINFO Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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