City Quotes
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On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.
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In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.
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A lot of people who wrote for 'Sex and the City' have gone to write about marriage and motherhood.
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul Minnesota in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
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Statistically it is probably the one city in the world where the most people have been killed in arguments over professional athletes.
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It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.
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There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.
Chaka Fattah -
Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
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After watching Watford against Manchester City last night
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I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.
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I like cars and houses. I have three houses - in Atlanta, in Kansas City and Houston.
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I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.
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When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.
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I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.
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Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
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I'm from the suburbs, really, so I actually didn't go to Montreal until I was, like, 19. I wasn't allowed to go to the city at night or really be in the scene with other producers. It was hard for my parents to understand what I was trying to do as an artist, but it didn't stop me. They eventually saw that it wasn't a joke.
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I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.
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I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.
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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.
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That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
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There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre.
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This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
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Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.
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I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.
