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		In an interview, Kim Cattrall said there could be another 'Sex in the City' movie. An hour later, ISIS surrendered - there's only so much they can take.
	
	  Conan O'Brien Conan O'Brien
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		The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
	
	  Alma Guillermoprieto Alma Guillermoprieto
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		That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.
	
	  John Zorn John Zorn
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		In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.
	
	  Barack Obama Barack Obama
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		I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.
	
	  Jeremy Scott Jeremy Scott
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		My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.
	
	  Les Claypool Les Claypool
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		By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
	
	  Jonathan Raban Jonathan Raban
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		Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
	
	  James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson
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		I love New York City; I've got a gun.
	
	  Charles Barkley Charles Barkley
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		I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
	
	  Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson
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		I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.
	
	  Philip Johnson Philip Johnson
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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 James Belushi
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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 Zach Anner
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		In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.
	
	  Elizabeth Diller Elizabeth Diller
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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 Christopher Guest
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		Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C. is a small town, and most everyone knows most everyone else. That person of the other party who you despise will someday be at your daughter's birthday party.
	
	  Kevin Hassett Kevin Hassett
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		I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.
	
	  Jim Crace Jim Crace
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		In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street.
	
	  Catherynne M. Valente Catherynne M. Valente