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“I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.”

“In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.”

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Author:Karrine Steffans

“New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.”

Stories America Levels Cities Diversity Corners Architecture Locals Superstitions New Orleans Woven Sensory Lurking Cultural Diversity

Author:Ruta Sepetys

“Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.”

Used Cities Used To Be Edinburgh Haughty

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”

Thinking Want Bigs Kids Cities Rich Big Cities

Author:Dan Savage

“I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.”

Years Cities Sun Team Enterprise Editors Reporters Rebecca

Author:David Simon

“I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

“I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.”

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Author:John Sandford

“I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.”

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Author:Mark Skousen

“If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.”

Ifs Desire Realizing Cities Weekend

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.”

Feels Humanity Cities Buddhism Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.”

Nature Cities Streets Buddhism Crowds All Alone City Streets

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.”

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Author:John Landis

“People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.”

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Author:Leonard Slatkin

“New York is a fantastic city.”

Cities New York Fantastic

Author:Marat Safin

“I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'”

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Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.”

Winning Chance Cities New York Edges Bowls Bugs Super Bowl

Author:Mark Sanchez

“Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.”

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Author:Moshe Safdie

“Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.”

World Space Cities Giants Internals Far Away Personal Things

Author:Regina Spektor

“Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.”

Cities England Factories Rest Of Your Life Idaho Tractors

Author:Bernie Taupin

“What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.”

States Enough Life Is Cities Quality Growing Unique Towns Raises Remarkable Destination Better Place Small Town Quality Of Life Affordable Suburbs Ohio Within Reach

Author:Bob Taft

“For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.”

Years Three Cities Balls Chains Score Halls Concerts Three Years

Author:Bryn Terfel

“In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.”

People Should May Ends Hurt Poor Cities Risk Concerned Daily Life Inner City Clout

Author:Fred Thompson

“That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.”

Littles Moments Character Sin Cities Meaningful Great Things Sin City

Author:Juno Temple

“During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.”

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Author:Laini Taylor

“'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.”

Interesting Cities Interesting Things Sitcom

Author:Lea Thompson

“Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.”

Desire Cities New York New York City Elsewhere

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.”

Ifs Thinking Cities Opinion Team Football Roots Great Football

Author:Paul Tagliabue

“I love L.A. - don't get me wrong. But I miss everything about New York. I don't eat cheese, but I miss the smell of pizza in the city. I'm a really big fan of Latino food. I want to go back home and have some good arroz con pollo.”

Want Home Bigs Cities Fans Missing New York Smell Cheese Latino Pizza Back Home

Author:Tristan Wilds

“Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.”

Stills Literature Cities Desks Watergate

Author:Bob Woodward

“Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.”

Believe Made Born Simple Cities Raised Kansas Missouri Kansas City

Author:Chely Wright

“I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.”

Earth Certain Cities Amount Connections Raised Texas

Author:JoBeth Williams

“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.”

Years School Social Cities Careers Study Teaching High School Years Ago Retired Social Studies Inner City Younger Sister Teaching History

Author:Judy Woodruff

“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.”

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.”

Cities Devil Angel Cobras City Of Angels

Author:Sean Young

“Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.”

Knows Believe Mean Certain Cities Quality Desirable Vibrancy

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.”

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Author:Timothy Simons

“Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'”

Reason Simple Cities Successful Plans Claims Lays These Days Vibrancy

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.”

Needs Writing Guy Song Cities Taught Yeah Royalty Nashville

Author:Katy Perry

“... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.”

Energy Cities Creative Beats Fantastic Southern Hospitality Nashville Creative Music

Author:Sam Palladio

“It's a holy city for music.”

Cities Holy Nashville

Author:Hugh Laurie

“From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home.”

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Author:Maneet Chauhan

“My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.”

People Giving Kind Different Ability Cities Lasting Different Kinds Songwriters Nashville Different Kinds Of Music Music City

Author:Emmylou Harris

“The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.”

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Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.”

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