Geoffrey West Quotes
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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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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
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I like risky stuff.
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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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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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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'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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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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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.
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I don't know who came up with this idea that it's cool to hate on other girls, 'cause it's not.
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My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
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I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
