City Quotes
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I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.
James D. Watson
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
Barry Jenkins
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.
Ian Gomez
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
Denis O'Hare
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I was broke when I lived in New York City during college, so I'd spend weekends walking around town, grabbing something to eat, and interacting with strangers. That ritual has stuck with me.
Jenji Kohan
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
Marion Barry
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New York is my favorite city.
Walter Dean Myers
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I split my time between a small town in New Jersey and New York City.
James McBride
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The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.
Peter Abrahams
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
Felix de Weldon
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Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.
Jan Vogler
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
Harold Washington
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
Calamity Jane
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Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.
Dennis Edwards
The Temptations
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'
Jay McInerney
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How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.
Jens Martin Skibsted
