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“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“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.”

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Book:Poems by Walt Whitman

Source: Poems by Walt Whitman

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

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Book:The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

“New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.”

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Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”

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Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.”

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Author:Ralph Metcalfe

“Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.”

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Author:Buster Keaton

“Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful”

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Author:Christopher Meloni

“Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.”

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Author:Le Corbusier

“People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.”

Source: Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism

“San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.”

“I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.”

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Author:Gabriel Macht

“Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.”

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Author:Hugh Newell Jacobsen

“Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.”

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Author:Jaime Lerner

“I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.”

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Author:Joe DiMaggio

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”

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Book:One man's America

Source: One man's America

“This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.”

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Book:The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

“The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.”

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Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.”

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Author:David Ben-Gurion

“I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.”

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?”

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Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.”

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Author:Irv Kupcinet

“Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.”

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Author:Toyo Ito

“New York is my favorite city in the world.”

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Author:Liam Gallagher

“Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady”

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Book:Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Source: Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

“San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.”

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Book:San Francisco Poems

Source: San Francisco Poems

“This is the first place in the United States where I sang, and I like San Francisco better than any other city in the world. I love no city more than this one. Where else could I sing outdoors on Christmas Eve?”

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Author:Luisa Tetrazzini

“I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.”

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Author:Boris Becker

“In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.”

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Author:Shalom Harlow

“What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.”

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Author:Brian Chesky

“Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.”

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Author:Patrick Carney