City Quotes
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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
Jack Canfield
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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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L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.
Jimmy Fallon
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In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
Mark Bradford
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What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.
Walter Washington
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I walked by myself through the city and urged angry young people to go home. I asked them to help the people who had been burned out.
Walter Washington
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I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.
Brian Posehn
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I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.
Mark V. Hurd
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I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not far from the city of Saratoga Springs. It is a place I love, close to the forests and the mountains.
Joseph Bruchac
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They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning.
Arlo Guthrie
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In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
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All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania – that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark on him.
Knut Hamsun
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You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
Chick Corea
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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
John Guare
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D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.
Uzodinma Iweala
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I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
Magic Johnson
