Quotes about cities
cities council government grants improve learning mayors members talk
They are learning experiences, ... You find out what other cities are doing to improve their government and you find out what grants are available. You get to talk with other council members and mayors to see what they're doing to make things better.
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They want to provide low-cost wireless services for their citizens?a noble act, but one which is going to cost taxpayers without giving them the right to vote on that kind of deployment, ... The cities are not prepared to run this kind of business. They don't know what customer service in networking is.
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Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room. Antony Gormley
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We're talking about an entire huge city and several smaller surrounding cities that will be empty for some time. It looks like we are going to have sustained prices for at least some weeks and maybe even months, and if that happens, I think that will have a pretty severe impact on the economy.
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We need to have a discussion with the three cities in our district to see if they are willing to be a part of this. If we are going to hire a person to supervise these facilities, we need to look at who will be picking up the costs. Maybe the cities would be interested in working something out.
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We need to respond in a strong and quick way to the unquestionable problems that many inhabitants of the deprived neighborhoods surrounding our cities are facing, Jacques Chirac
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In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government. Jacqueline Novogratz
cities weather tvs
On cable TV, they have a weather channel
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And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city Daniel Libeskind
cities design needs
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole
cities humanity architecture
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
cities waste gourmet
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city. Cornelia Otis Skinner
cities persons knows
The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone, Colson Whitehead
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The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday. Colum McCann
cities knows
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.
cities lucky kind
I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere. Colin Hay
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When we watch hockey games and see 8,000 fans in (Washington) D.C., you cringe as a player, ... Those cities that aren't pulling their weight in terms of drawing fans and revenue are hurting everybody as a whole, not just that city. Jeremy Roenick
cities played states
We've played in 51 different cities and 14 U.S. states and the state of Chihuahua.
cities people rewarded
There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded. Bruce Wilkinson
cities public
There are just not other cities where you don't need a car, where everyone is reliant on public transportation, where we're all in each other's faces. Griffin Dunne
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It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. David Simon
cities feet addresses
Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For there, there will be the address of your happiness. David Paul
cities towns factories
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. David Lynch
cities urbanization rights
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. David Harvey
cities skylines
I've always been drawn to city skylines. Dave Haywood
cities people reliability
When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework. Dave Eggers
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But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.
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Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives. David Levithan
cities money wrong
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure. Carl Stokes
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We're trying to conceive of a system aimed at reuniting communities through communications technology, ... The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster.
cities good
We thought it was a good idea, and we wanted to show other cities it could be done.
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Toronto is one of the safest cities of the world. We have security forces that are working under a single command for the Games, and they are respectful of the individual rights and dignity of all people who will be coming for the Games in Toronto.
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Toronto is one of the safest cities of the world,