San Francisco Quotes - Page 13

• When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

  Iris Chang

  Chinese, Special, Firsts

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• I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

  Peter Coyote

  Writing, College, Creative

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• I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

  Roman Coppola

  Home, Years, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.

  Harry S. Truman

  Justice, Important, Today

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, People

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2009

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• I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

  Nick Johnson

  Thinking, Laid Back, Sacramento

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• I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

  Ezra Koenig

  Fans, Bay Area, Areas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.

  William Lucking

  Years, Bridges, Names

  "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.

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• Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Believe, Common Sense, Residents

  "NRA to File Suit Against San Francisco Gun Ban". www.foxnews.com. November 13, 2005.

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• L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L.A.

  James Ellroy

  Moving, Home, Writing

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.

  Alan Abel

  Taken, Waiting In Line, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Uplifting, Cities, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.

  Kevin Sessums

  Jobs, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom." The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro "is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West."

  Meredith Willson

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Freedom

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• You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger. Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.

  Pat Robertson

  Cutting, Gay, Hands

  "Pat Robertson Suggests Gays With AIDS Wear Rings To Cut, Infect Others". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

  Huey Lewis

  Paradise, Natural, Grew Up

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• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  Wendell Pierce

  Years, Three, Baltimore

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• 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

  Matt Mullenweg

  Work Out, Factories, Employee

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• I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City, and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.

  Anthony Mackie

  Fun, Cities, Roles

  "What Anthony Mackie Can Do in a Day". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Singers, Used, Streets

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• Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Artist, Communes

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• I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Work, Dedication

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• San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

  Dave Matthews

  Flower, Hair, Cities

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• What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

  Warren Rudman

  Country, Disaster, Found

  "WAR ON TERROR: Four Years After 9/11 / The quest for national security / NATURAL DISASTER'S MARK: In Hurricane Katrina's wake, some question whether battle against terrorism is the right fight" by Marc Sandalow, www.sfgate.com. September 11, 2005.

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