City Quotes
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When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.
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I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
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Everyone knows about hot dogs and the Big Apple. But for me, New York City street food is all about the Biryani Cart.
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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I lived in New York for five years; I've lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.
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For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
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Pretty excited to get to Boston. Great city and great team; they're in the race. They want to win here, and that's what I want to do.
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I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.
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Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.
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There are so many musicians in New York, and there is this energy and fire in this city that inspires you and makes you want to learn and to get out there. People are constantly evolving and constantly creating here, and you get pushed along just by being in that energy.
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We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and smaller armies, which move into city centres, which increasingly become the theatre of warfare.
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
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I actually grew up in the City of Pasadena.
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As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.
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I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from a Midtown food truck, grab empanadas by the dozen in Spanish Harlem or get a fantastic bowl of ramen in the East Village.
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Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can.
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It's the same game, I don't care where you are playing, Minnesota, Kansas City or New York, it's the same game.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
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I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day.
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Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
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I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
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I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.
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I always tell people that being the mayor of an urban city for eight years was like getting run over by a truck every day. There's inner satisfaction, but 24 hours a day, every day, I'm on duty.
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I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.
