City Quotes
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I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?
John Waters
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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.
Eric Reed Boucher
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I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
Joel Kinnaman
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Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.
Questlove
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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
John Lee Hancock
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Adolf Loos
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'In My City' was my first single. It has a very special place in my heart, and I am beyond excited to bring the amazing energy of the track to the NFL's passionate fans.
Priyanka Chopra
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The city of the future is a city that cares about its citizens and integrates its citizens.
Eduardo Paes
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I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.
I. M. Pei
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There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.
Charles Dickens
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Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?
K. P. Yohannan
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I never really thought about the fact that most of the times I saw Black Panther, he was in New York or in some American city doing something cool with the Avengers. I mean, he's the Prince of Wakanda, but we rarely saw him in Wakanda.
Brian Stelfreeze
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She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.
Piper Perabo
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My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.
Joe Lhota
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The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores.
Jeremy Corbyn
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My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
Eric Kandel
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Guys don't know they're pussy whipped until it's too late. Until you do something that lets you know, like when you shush your friends: 'Hey, man, remember that time we went to Vegas and...?' 'Dude, shut the fuck up about Vegas! The fuck are you doing?! The window's open, man! She's somewhere in the city!'
Joe Rogan
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I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.
Pep Guardiola
