City Quotes
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There were two views of how a polis was formed. The first was military: a scattered group of people came to live in one city behind a set of protective walls. The other was political: a group of people agreed to live under one authority, with or whithout the protection of a walled city. Synoikismos, or 'Living together', embraces both. Any political entity implies a population that recognizes a common authority, but the first 'city-states' were not always based on a city. Sparta makes the point. We think of Sparta as a city, but the Spartans were proud of the fact that they lived in villages without protective walls: their army was their wall and 'every man a brick.
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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
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I've lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I'd love to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else on the planet.
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In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the 'Today Show' and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia - Julia Child, James Beard, they all came.
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I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.
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To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
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This area will be a city someday. All of that land is either spoken for or is being entitled, so we were fortunate to get in early.
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The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
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I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!
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We may have city lights and the glow of touch screens to obscure our view, but God's world is still near at hand, even right here in New York City where I live.
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Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.
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I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.
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Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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My mom would drive me from Cleveland to New York City and use my dad's hotel points for auditions. They were the most supportive parents that I could have. Without them, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
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People forget that in early 1970s, there were 3 sushi bars in New York City. Three. Three. Think about that. Now, there is sushi in... I've eaten it - there is sushi at gas stations in Middle America.
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People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.
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When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
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Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.
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Visitors are coming to see a city that looks like a disaster movie set, but it could become fascinating if young people can get a chance to turn this shit into something new and exciting.
