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  • 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.

    "Surgeon General Koop: The Legacy of a Health Warrior" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.
  • Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

    "NRA to File Suit Against San Francisco Gun Ban". www.foxnews.com. November 13, 2005.
  • New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.

  • If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

    Jack London (1979). “No Mentor But Myself: A Collection of Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Letters on Writing and Writers”, Associated Faculty PressInc
  • Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

    Herb Caen (1958). “New Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area”
  • California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

    James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”
  • I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.

    Summer   Couple   School  
    Source: collider.com
  • Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which California officials fully expect to be funded.

  • I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

    Home   Men   Yankees  
  • San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.

  • Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.

    Cancer   Dark   Night  
  • 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.

    Dream   Cities   Names  
  • It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?

  • The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

    Running   Real   Home  
  • Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren’t required to do so.

    "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.
  • 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.

  • 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 J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.420, Transaction Publishers
  • I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

  • Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

    Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.83, Random House
  • San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

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

  • 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.

    Girl   Dream   Play  
    "Winona Ryder Wants to Be in a Philip Roth Adaptation". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 23, 2013.
  • Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

    Source: collider.com
  • There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.

    Source: www.dead-frog.com
  • And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

    "America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction".
  • President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.

  • How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

    Heart   Thinking   Cities  
  • Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

  • Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and Medicare and federal government solutions. But if you think through the analysis, strengthening state rights is a good corrective of the aggregation of an over-reaching federal power.

    "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.
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