Willis Polk Quotes

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

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• In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Theatre
  • Collaboration

• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Best
  • Ahead

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Books

• I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Living

• I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Opportunity
  • Chance
  • Acting

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• The Swiss can be very difficult.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Difficult
  • Very
  • Swiss

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Work
  • Comedy

• When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Time
  • Home
  • English

• Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Slavery
  • United States
  • Cuba

• I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Jazz
  • Ride

• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Man
  • Chance

• Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Summer
  • Horse

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Love
  • Power
  • Miracles

• A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Moments
  • Effort

• Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Magic

• The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.

  

  Patricia Espinosa
  • Lives
  • Cities
  • Cost

• I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Missing

• How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

  

  Alice Tisdale Hobart
  • Democracy
  • Nation
  • Disease

• In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

  

  Willis Polk
  • Planning
  • Cities