City Quotes
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New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
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The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.
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Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).
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When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.
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The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.
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I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
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L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.
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The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.
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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
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I've got to thank the city of El Paso for standing behind me.
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Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.
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New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.
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I don't belong to the slums, but to play Naru in 'City Of Gold,' I had to live for months in a real chawl before we shot the film.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
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I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in modern times.
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The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.
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I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.
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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.
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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.
