Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.
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I don't want to end up losing my soul.
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Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.
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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.
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Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
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No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
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New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.
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I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.
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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.
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For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
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I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.
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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
