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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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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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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My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
