Edward Glaeser Quotes
Historically, most people were far too poor to let their tastes in entertainment guide where they chose to live, and cities were hardly pleasure zones. Yet as people have become richer, they have increasingly chosen cities based on lifestyle—and the consumer city was born.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
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The personal computer can be a virtual device.
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I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
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Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
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People are literally tracking everything. People are becoming more empowered and knowing what's going into their body.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.
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Historically, most people were far too poor to let their tastes in entertainment guide where they chose to live, and cities were hardly pleasure zones. Yet as people have become richer, they have increasingly chosen cities based on lifestyle—and the consumer city was born.
