City Quotes
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I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
Christopher Meloni -
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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Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room.
Mat Kearney -
My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
Tayari Jones -
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Desmond Morris -
I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
Gemma Chan -
For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!
Kurt Braunohler -
I live in New York City. I'm 5-foot-9 and wear Rockport shoes that make me 5-foot-91/2. They're not lifts - I deny that - but they do set off the airport metal detector. My hair is starting to gray a little. I have a gold tooth in the back.
Billy Crudup
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What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost four straight. And George Steinbrenner apologized to the city.
John McEnroe -
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
Alvar Aalto -
I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven -
Actually, like the vast majority of Australians, I had been born and raised in a city, but in the British imagination at that time the whole of Australia was still the outback, which was somehow equipped with a beach. Later on, this outback beach acquired an Opera House and a row of brick bungalows, one of them occupied by Kylie Minogue.
Clive James -
Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.
Jaime Lerner
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I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.
Elayne Boosler -
When I was eight, I started what could be considered my first business, performing magic shows in Mexico City.
Daniel Lubetzky -
Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.
Daniela Hantuchova -
I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
Emeril Lagasse -
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
Baz Luhrmann -
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.
Eric Bogosian
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Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect.
Federica Mogherini -
There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way more haters. It's definitely a great city to be from. But it's not really a lot of people that come out of there. So when you, like, make it out of Philadelphia, everywhere else is easy.
Lil Uzi Vert -
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 -
I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
Bill Murray