Urban Quotes

• I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • World
  • Writing
  • Powerful

• There are roles for all types of movies. I mean, you still want to watch the urban movies, and they need to be told. You still want to see something you haven't seen before.

  

  Melissa De Sousa
  • Movies
  • Something
  • Roles

• Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Challenges
  • Strange
  • Birth

• Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Reason
  • Scared

• No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Culture
  • Perfect
  • Urban

• What I did was go into the studio and make music that I love. Make music that when you hear it, it feels good. Whether it was urban inspired, dance inspired, HipHop inspired or it just feels good period.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Feels
  • Inspired
  • Periods

• The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Environment
  • Natural
  • Inspiring

• Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Poverty
  • Average
  • Folks

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