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- Nov 07, 2020
Francisco Quotes
Quotes rooted in life around San Francisco.
These quotes trace personal connections to San Francisco, from a longtime local presence built through offseason functions to a move from Sacramento that reshaped someone's creative sound. Community shows up too, in a writers' collective sharing office space in a converted building.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of people like that guy in San Francisco who told me it changed his life, 'Teen Witch' is my most favorite thing I've ever done. I see how happy it makes people, and that makes me happy. The great thing is that no one realized it was going to become all these things when we were making it. We thought we were making a very serious movie.
- Bike
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a bike - a fixed-gear with bright blue wheels, custom-made to my specifications. I am a San Francisco techno-hipster, so this selection was a bit of a self-caricature. But sometimes the predictable thing turns out to be the best thing, too, and you can't let that stop you.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in - everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was part of a writers' collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. We had our own office space in this old converted dog and cat hospital, and we had a basketball hoop outside. I'd bring my dog to work every day and write.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to shoot in San Francisco permanently. It would be such a joy to come back home full circle.
- East Village
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- Nov 07, 2020