Betsy Hodges Quotes
Prince was a child of our city, and his love of his hometown permeated many of his songs. Our pride in his accomplishments permeates our love of Minneapolis.
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.
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Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
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I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.
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I grew up right in Santa Cruz, right across the bay from Monterey. I would go to Monterey all the time.
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Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.
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The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.
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It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.
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Prince was a child of our city, and his love of his hometown permeated many of his songs. Our pride in his accomplishments permeates our love of Minneapolis.
