San Francisco Quotes - Page 7

• I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.

  Winona Ryder

  Girl, Dream, Play

  "Winona Ryder Wants to Be in a Philip Roth Adaptation". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Important, Rice

  "Mr. Mike’s America: A Comic’s Trek with SNL’s First Head Writer" by Paul Slansky, Playboy, paulslansky.com. March 1983.

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• Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

  Terence Stamp

  Cities, Magic, Vancouver

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• People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

  Joanna Newsom

  Easter, Islands, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

  Jeff Garcia

  Change, Moving, Opportunity

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• I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

  Jenni Olson

  Reflection, Years, Style

  "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

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• A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?

  Jay Leno

  Children, Couple, Thinking

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• The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

  Muddy Waters

  Quality, Kind

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• In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

  Mark Waters

  College, Years, Theater

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• If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Next Week, Vietnam

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• it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

  Jane Smiley

  Food, Years, Chicago

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• When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Cameras, Docks, Boat

  "Annie, get your flashgun" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2003.

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• In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant.

  Will Durst

  Redundant

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• Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

  Tom Araya

  People, Surfing, Four

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• I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

  Jack Benny

  Careers, Violin, Theater

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Issues, United States, Unions

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.420, Transaction Publishers

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• No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

  Fletcher Knebel

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

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• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  A. J. Liebling

  Real, Past, New Orleans

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• While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Philosophy, Cash Flow

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• I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

  Mick Ralphs

  Los Angeles

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• Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Acceptance, Earthquakes

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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• Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

  William Bernhardt

  Earthquakes, Personality, Shining

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• Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

  William Bernhardt

  Earthquakes, Aftermath, Suspense

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• I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

  Mike Rowe

  Rivers, Guy, Cockroaches

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• Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.

  Edwin Black

  Country, Garden, Squares

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