Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here."
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San Francisco
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Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me."
John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco."
Robert Hunter
Lyricist
"But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky"
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world"
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"Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency."
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"San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done."
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"You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is."
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"San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery."
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"In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world."
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"And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away."
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"But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist."
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"Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember."
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"What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco."
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"Now there's a grown-up swinging town."
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"I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved."
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"I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union."
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"If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope."
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"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."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment."
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"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."
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"The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires."
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"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."
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