A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I was approached by a company in San Francisco called Fantex. I did my due diligence on it. I tried to outweigh… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China,… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing:… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Like so many other San Franciscans whose paycheck isn't tied to an app or a private bus ride to the Peninsula, you… — Oscar Villalon Copy Share Image
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“Driving to pick up his son, Bennie alternated between the Sleepers and the Dead Kennedys, San Francisco bands he'd grown up with.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic… — Don Bassingthwaite Copy Share Image
“We are all, of course, wayfaring strangers on this earth. But coming out of the rainbow tunnel, the liminal portal between Marin… — Scott Hutchins Copy Share Image
“Something About Cooking Cooking is sometimes a pleasure, sometimes a duty, sometimes a burden and sometimes a martyrdom, all according to the… — Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords Copy Share Image
“Pandas and rain forests are never mentioned when it comes to the millions of people taking joyrides in their Range Rovers. Rather,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“In a 1963 performance entitled "Who R U?" at the San Francisco Museum of Art, Stern and Callahan added highway sounds to… — Fred Turner Copy Share Image
Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
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I used to be a pretty hard-core iPhone fan. But over time, I grew more and more frustrated with the lousy service… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Julie nearly fainted when I showed up at home that night with the new Lexus. The first thing she wanted to do… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted,… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this… — Jeff Garcia Copy Share Image
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland… — William Henry Irwin Copy Share Image
What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on… — Ed Lee Copy Share Image
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When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
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My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
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Imagine for a second that the Golden Gate had not been built. This place in the San Francisco Bay would be one… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
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The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
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