Edward Glaeser Quotes
Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
Quotes to Explore
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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I can Do all that angels can. I enjoy like them, Like men besides, like men in light secluded, Enjoying angels.
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When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength.
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When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
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Programs that encourage mentorship, workshops that teach women how to self advocate, and even employee resource groups that are focused on women in the workplace are all very powerful outlets that foster safe-space conversations.
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If I had a penny for every time I've been asked if I'm going to work in America.
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Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.
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Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
