City Quotes
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I headed back to Ann Arbor, still having enough contacts there to get my job back at the Computing Center, and liking the city a lot.
W. Richard Stevens
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What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.
Barack Obama
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
John Guare
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When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.
Elif Batuman
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Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
Martha Reeves
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Growing up in New York, we lived all around the city depending on our economic circumstance. I also lived in Puerto Rico for a number of years.
Jimmy Smits
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City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
Jane Byrne
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
Aristophanes
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Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.
Archy Ivan Marshall
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I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.
Martin O'Malley
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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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A multi-colored crowd streaked about, and suddenly all was totally changed. It wasn't the usual city racket. It came from a strange land.
Anna Akhmatova
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Each city should have its own type of restaurant.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.
Christopher John Wilson
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Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.
Chris Matthews
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It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!
Bob Wise
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Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.
Walter Kohn
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The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.
E. Nesbit
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I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.
Marian Seldes
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Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.
Apolo Ohno
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
Le Corbusier
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I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.
Jesse Eisenberg
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New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.
Marshall Brickman
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The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.
Logan Green