City Quotes
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Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.
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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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I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!
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I grew up just outside New York City in a very white town. In seventh grade, I got called Macy Gray. It really affected me, so I got a weave and wore my hair straight.
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New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
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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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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.
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Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.
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I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.
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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 literally will write Shonda Rhimes, the creator of 'Grey's,' an e-mail once a month or so and just say, 'Hey, I love you and thank you.' That was my moment. Because of that, I'm doing 'Magic 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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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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Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
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Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.
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There’s no Democratic way to run a city and there’s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way to run a city.
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It was fun working with Will Smith; it was fun working with Alex Proyas, who is another sci-fi guy with 'Dark City.'
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I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
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City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
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Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
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I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.
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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
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I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?
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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.
