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Let's make Oakland a model city.
Oakland kids are always the best.
Oakland's got a lot of character.
I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan.
We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.
I wasn't really happy in Oakland or anything like that.
I'm from Oakland and I started doing comedy around 2001.
I'm a suburban mom. I grew up in Oakland County, Michigan.
I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.
I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.
Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.
I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
As long as each day comes with a nice fresh cup of Oakland Coffee then everything will be alright.
George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.
My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.
If I've got a black joke, and I can't tell it in Oakland, then I shouldn't tell the joke anywhere else.
I'm a geek. I love SF and fantasy. I listen to metal. I follow the Oakland Raiders and the Orlando Magic.
When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
We all know what Al Davis means to the NFL, what he means to the Oakland Raiders. He is the Oakland Raiders.
Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.
Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I'd be a Hall of Famer. I wasn't thinking about basketball like that.
I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.
The Raiders moved from Oakland to Los Angeles, didn't like it, didn't get along. Whatever it was, moved back to Oakland.
Being from Oakland, you see a lot of thing. You see friends turn on friends all the time. You see family turn on family.
The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.
Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.
Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.
I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.
Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.
My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.
My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.
I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.
It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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?
It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.
All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?
I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.