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I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.
I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.
[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.
In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.
The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.
I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.
One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.
I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.
I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here.
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.
Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.
The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.
We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.
Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)
It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It’s definitely always a place that’s going to be very special to me.
I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.
Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.
I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums.
D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.
Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.
You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.
I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.
San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.