- Better
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think your environment really plays into how you create. I lived in San Francisco for a bit, and I felt like I lived in the Matrix - so my music had that paranoid-of-the-outside sound to it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to throw out the first pitch at AT&T Park at a San Francisco Giants' game.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San Francisco and Portland and Los Angeles. I don't know if six states is a solution because is Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country really going to give California 10 new senators?
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college at San Francisco State and supported myself working the graveyard shift at a brewery and did a little theater. It was great. I'd do Shakespeare and stuff like that.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw 'The Shining' when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020