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It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.

    Author: Al Michaels
   

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

    Author: Amy Irving
   

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

    Author: Barbara Boxer
   

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

    Author: Bobby McFerrin
   

From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.

    Author: Boz Scaggs
   

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

    Author: Calamity Jane
   

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

    Author: Cecil Beaton
   

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

    Author: Chita Rivera
   

I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes, and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away.

    Author: Christine McVie
   

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

    Author: Colleen Haskell
   

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.

    Author: Cordell Hull
   

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

    Author: Danielle Steel
   

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

    Author: Douglass North
   

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

    Author: Eric Allin Cornell
   

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

    Author: Freddy Fender
   

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

    Author: Gary Cole
   

This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

    Author: Gary Hart
   

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

    Author: Gavin Newsom
   

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

    Author: Gedde Watanabe
   

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

    Author: Gedde Watanabe
   

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

    Author: George Halas
   

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

    Author: Gordon Sinclair
   

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

    Author: Imogen Cunningham
   

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

    Author: Iris Chang
   

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

    Author: Jack London
   

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

    Author: James Franco
   

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.

    Author: Jeff Garcia
   

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

    Author: Jello Biafra
   

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

    Author: Jeremy Sumpter
   

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.

    Author: Joanna Newsom
   

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

    Author: John Breaux
   

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

    Author: John Ensign
   

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.

    Author: John Hall
   

I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.

    Author: Krist Novoselic
   

This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

    Author: Kristen Bell
   

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

    Author: Les Claypool
   

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

    Author: Michael O'Donoghue
   

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

    Author: Michael Stipe
   

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.

    Author: Michael Tilson Thomas
   

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

    Author: Michael Tilson Thomas
   

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

    Author: Mick Ralphs
   

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

    Author: Nick Johnson
   

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

    Author: O. Henry
   

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

    Author: Paul Prudhomme
   

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

    Author: Pete Stark
   

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.

    Author: Peter Coyote
   

This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.

    Author: Philip Kaufman
   

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.

    Author: Rene Cassin
   

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.

    Author: Rick Pitino
   

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.

    Author: Robert McChesney
   

Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

    Author: Roger Daltrey
   

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.

    Author: Rosie O'Donnell
   

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

    Author: Rudyard Kipling
   

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

    Author: Stephen Breyer
   

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

    Author: Thom Gunn
   

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.

    Author: Wilford Brimley
   

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