San Francisco Quotes - Page 15

• Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

  Norman Foster

  Car, Google, Robots

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• I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

  Sara Zarr

  Jesus, California, Church

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• I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

  Raymond Burr

  Years, Sea, Fiji

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• whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Taken, California, Jumping

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• Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San Francisco," Virginia answered, then paused. "Well,actually I do,and I don't like them. But I do like you,Billy, and I'm not going to allow you to end up as lunch for some raggedy lion-monster-thingy." "A sphinx," Machiavelli corrected her. He was standing at the bars again. "Mistress Dare," the Italian said carefully. "I absolutely applaud you for what you want to do for your friend. But I urge you to think of the bigger picture.

  Michael Scott

  Thinking, Italian, Lunch

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• Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hippie, Hair, Shoes

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

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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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• The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!

  Larry King

  Girl, Dream, Perfect Days

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• Once at a record store in San Francisco, over a thousand kids showed up. They pushed forward and broke a window. A big piece of glass fell on top of this girl. And the girl's throat was slit. She just got slit. And I remember there was blood everywhere. Oh God, so much blood. And she grabbed her throat and was bleeding and everyone just ignored her. Why? Because I was there and they wanted to grab at me and get my autograph. I wonder whatever happened to that girl.

  Michael Jackson

  Girl, Kids, Glasses

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• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  News conference, 21 Mar. 1962

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• This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

  Kristen Bell

  New York, Fun, Real

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• Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I've never been a traditional tourist. I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things in a different way. Places look different in the early-morning hours, when the streets are deserted.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Running, Morning

  "On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People".

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• Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. [Here is] a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.

  Carl G. Fisher

  New York, Science, Thinking

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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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• There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?

  Pete Doherty

  New York, Mean, Differences

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• This is where the question always come up, "Aren't you going to split the vote?" To which the obvious answer is: Well let's just rank peoples' choices. This is a voting system we use across the country, from San Francisco to Portland, Maine, and the Twin Cities. It's used very successfully in single-office elections like mayor. It could be used for governor.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Cities, Office

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, School, Institute

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spiritual, America, Vices

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• I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

  Kim Novak

  Perfect, Would Be, Honeymoon

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• San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.

  Patricia Montandon

  Hills, Rhyme

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Saws, Well Dressed, Feds

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• The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Class, Pockets, Saving

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• Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

  Norman Mailer

  New York, Cities, Chicago

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.83, Random House

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• Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

  Joan Chen

  Ballet, Way, Hawaii

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life......San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Adventure, Cities

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