San Francisco Quotes - Page 6

• Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Sister, Mother, Brother

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• Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away.

  Elizabeth Falkner

  Wine, Blow, Details

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• San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

  Chita Rivera

  Angel, America, Wells

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• San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, America, Cities

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• I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Children, California, Towns

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• This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

  Jim Goldberg

  Kids, Boys, Gun

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• As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

  Richard Carmona

  Men, Epidemics, California

  "Surgeon General Koop: The Legacy of a Health Warrior" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Persistence, People, Know Me

  "Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi" by John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Class, Way, My Family

  "Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi" by John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2008.

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• My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

  Robin Williams

  Father, Home, Chance

  Source: www.rd.com

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• I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Worry, Age, Essentials

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 3, 2009.

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• A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

  Aleister Crowley

  Air, Pleasure Seeking, Edinburgh

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• Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez -- who was with him at the time -- 'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!'

  Eric Burdon

  New Orleans, Numbers, Car

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• As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Gay, Gang Members, Israel

  "'Marcos is Gay'". www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.

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• Maximum Rocknroll
  didn't have a map section.
  How was I supposed to know
  that Berkeley was not
  a neighborhood of San Francisco?

  Bucky Sinister

  Maps, Neighborhood, Berkeley

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• California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

  James Bryce

  Country, California, Unions

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Country, Beach

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

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• You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Beautiful, New York, Smart

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• 9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to speak to each other manually; today one or both ends of the conversation would be carried on by a machine.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Distance, Party

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• Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Parent

  "Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.

  Jeremy Sumpter

  Teamwork, Hate, Team

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• Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Taken

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.61, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Years, Answers, Politics

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• Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.

  Frederick Lenz

  New York, Buddhism, Boston

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• if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.

  Jan Morris

  Taken, Rocks, America

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