Quotes about cities
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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
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The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals. Le Corbusier
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times. Laurence Yep
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The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt. Dick Cheney
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. Banksy
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An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. James Keller
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The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl. Leon Krier
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Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy. Blake Mycoskie
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Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. Srikumar Rao
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I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. Olivier Messiaen
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My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest. Geoffrey West
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Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.
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Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. Alexander Woollcott
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Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
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We don't have as much green space in our downtown as other cities do, so that means we have to make excellent use of what we've got.
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
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I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. Arundhati Roy
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We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.
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We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. Patrick Kavanagh
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We don't know how many teams, which cities it'd be. We just know they're going to have a WUSA, and that's the most exciting thing right now. Heather Mitts
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. A. J. Liebling
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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. Abbas Kiarostami
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Adam Smith
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city. Adam Lambert
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True are the cities and the villages, where one abides in the True Home of the self.
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Trees are a vital component of the infrastructure in our cities and towns, and provide environmental and economical benefits.
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Yeah, it would hurt us, but I think there's a lot of cities it would hurt a lot worse,
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We get called out to cities in Dallas County all the time to do vehicle searches. We are always happy to help out in whatever way we can.
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Virtually all of Riverside County is a solid housing market at this point. The cities and the unincorporated communities are all doing well.
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While it looks like a good thing for mobile-home owners, it's a cost shift from the developers and the state over to cities and counties.