City Quotes
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People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.
Mathieu Kassovitz
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There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have attended dandiya events in Ahmedabad, and I must say the energy level of the city during that season is amazing.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.
Dante Alighieri
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She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim.
Earl Lovelace
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It's such a great city, visually. You can't get that kind of look in Canada that you can get in Boston: the old-brick historical buildings, the winding streets, the old but funky neighborhoods like Southie and Somerville. You can't get that elsewhere. It's a very unique place in that way.
Brad Anderson
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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.
Van Morrison
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I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.
Ian Blair
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Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S Truman
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
P. D. James
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Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter articulated next summer.
Plutarch
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When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.
Luis Suarez
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Charles Dudley Warner
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I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.
Joe Carnahan
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At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
Billy Sunday
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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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I like playing at the U.S. Open because I like New York. It's a nice city. You can do anything there. It's one of my favourite cities in the world. I also like Indian Wells and Miami, too.
Caroline Wozniacki
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I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
Yanis Varoufakis
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Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic.
Charlotte Riddell
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I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
Ken Livingstone
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To one who has been long in city pent,’Tis very sweet to look into the fairAnd open face of heaven.
John Keats
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'Is there anyone or anything in this city which can’t be bought?' I said, slipping him a note.'Yeah,' the man said, laughing quietly. 'But I’m not it.'
Alastair Reynolds