Rabih Alameddine Quotes
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.Rabih Alameddine
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
Fabrizio Moreira -
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
Natalie Maines -
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.
Vanessa Morgan -
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long -
My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
Jack Dangermond -
It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
Dan Gilbert -
I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
Ted Nugent -
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.
Sal Albanese -
When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
Kate Grenville -
It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
Aaron Lazar
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White -
Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
Ireland Baldwin -
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
Valentina Matviyenko -
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
Hamish Bowles -
I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
Iman -
I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.
Pep Guardiola -
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.
Paula Poundstone -
It is a most unexpected Earthquake in Geneva.
Peter Greenaway -
Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
Elton Gallegly -
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
Rabih Alameddine