Bay Area Quotes - Page 2

• Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.

  Emperor Norton

  San Francisco, Twenties, Dollars

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• In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

  Conrad Hilton

  San Francisco, World, Hospitality

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• A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

  Herb Caen

  Girl, Flower, Dark

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.

  Willie Brown

  Cities, San Francisco, May

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• Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.

  Georges Pompidou

  Dream, Cities, Names

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• You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  San Francisco, President, Taxes

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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.

  William Saroyan

  San Francisco, Bored, Alive

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• Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

  Frank Sinatra

  San Francisco, Towns

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• To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet.  It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow

  Law, San Francisco, World

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.409, New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press

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• I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

  Mark Twain

  Cities, San Francisco, Unions

  Mark Twain, Bernard Taper (1963). “Mark Twain's San Francisco”, p.12, Heyday

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• I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

  Twiggy

  Paris, San Francisco, Mad

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• San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

  Cecil Beaton

  Cities, San Francisco, European Countries

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• It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

  Erik Qualman

  Jobs, Counter Culture, Together

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• What's exciting about the Bay Area, is that people are not waiting for permission from the industry to make movies - unlike Los Angeles or New York, where you can get stuck into that desire of raising a big budget, or working with the studios.

  Matthew Jacobs

  New York, People, Waiting

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• I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light.

  Stephen Beal

  Thinking, Light, Fog

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants.

  Jon Miller

  Growing Up, Games, Giving

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• By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Two, Dollars

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• I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Areas, Native

  "Bay Area native Jon Huntsman Jr. may run in 2012". Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. May 25, 2011.

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• ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA revelations played a big part but there are all sorts of other issues too, like inequality and gentrification in the Bay Area, and labor abuses everywhere from Amazon's warehouse, to Apple's factories, to start-ups like Uber and TaskRabbit.

  Astra Taylor

  Years, Nsa, Uber

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.

  David Batstone

  Journey, San Francisco, World

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• We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Giving, Empowering

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

  Jonathan Cain

  Girlfriend, Children, Blessing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Loss, Florida

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

  John Collison

  Moving, Actresses, Hollywood

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• As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the Bay Area community. UnGrounded is strong proof of that commitment.

  Rhonda Abrams

  Strong, Commitment, Hands

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