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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When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
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Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
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Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.
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In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.
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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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We will make a city hall that truly serves the people who live there.
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The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car.
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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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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 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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There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city of London becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.
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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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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
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I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.
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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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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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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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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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And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
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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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I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.
