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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.
My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
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.
A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.
You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!
I love New York. New York is busy. It's dirty. It's smelly. I'm a real urban animal: I love cities. I like being in the middle of it all.
I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more
Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in modern times.
Democracy cannot be a plaything for the capital cities. It has to infiltrate every nook and cranny in the country, including the village.
The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.
How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?
I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can.
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.
You are going to hear how he [Donald Trump] is going to address the 11 million, and some other issues as well, including sanctuary cities.
I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.
We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.
I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.
To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.
Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.