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		Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karim Kharbouch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. G. Ballard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Blair Underwood
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I moved to New York City from Texas at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and skirts, wool trousers occasionally, and heels always.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary H.K. Choi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gaby Hoffmann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Enrique Pena Nieto
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				P. J. O'Rourke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you truly believe in a united Jerusalem, deeds have to be more than words. We need a real united Jerusalem. It takes determination, audacity, and money to provide full services and law enforcement in the entire city.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Naftali Bennett
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laura Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Douglas Brinkley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jon Huntsman, Sr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Rockefeller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pete Hamill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara Coloroso
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Damien Chazelle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I went down to Chicago to try to go into a place called Second City. I auditioned for that and got in pretty quickly, but I couldn't stop partying. They gave me a warning: 'If you do it again, we're gonna kick you off the main stage.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Farley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pete Hamill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nelson Algren