City Quotes
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The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.
Newt Gingrich
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The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.
Geoffrey West
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After a very busy three weeks spent in the City, I now have a much better understanding how all the different financial institutions work and how they fit together.
Prince William
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Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.
James Belushi
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Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities.
Matthew Desmond
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In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources.
Jonathan Van Ness
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Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
Marilyn Hacker
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There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
Jaime Lerner
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I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
Alan Garner
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It won't be too long that you'll be celebrating and you'll have confetti coming down on their heads and the city will just be going crazy.
Kevin Love
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We have a new team ready to go in to City Hall. Where there have been mistakes we will rectify them. Where there are achievements we will build on them.
Boris Johnson
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What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.
Zach Anner
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'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to describe what I've written without sounding delusional or boring, so I'll just say they are stories about growing up and the pleasures and agonies of having a family, a body, and a home.
Jenny Zhang
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In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.
Christopher Guest
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With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.
Jon Porter
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Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.
Marvin Ammori
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I have a long history with Kansas City.
Brad Feld
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Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.
Eduardo Paes
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I have to thank Leicester City Football Club. The adventure was amazing and will live with me forever.
Claudio Ranieri
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In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].
Curtis Hanson
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I love Chicago. I think it's an amazing city.
Christen Press
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I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.
Louis Oosthuizen
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I could never really figure out why people would live in a kibbutz. I'm such a city girl.
Anat Cohen