John Sandford Quotes
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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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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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 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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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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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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I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.
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Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?
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Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.
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When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.
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I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
