Jess Row Quotes
There's an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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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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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
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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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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
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I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.
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I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.
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I'm a very friendly socialist.
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There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.
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There's an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see.
