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“In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.”

United Cities Tree Example Function Financial London Miles Kingdoms Overwhelming Sheer Fabulous Dominance Poisonous Notorious United Kingdom

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.”

Want Cities Police

Author:Martin Firrell

“The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.”

Littles Fall Cities Conflict Japan Affected Hostility

Author:Seishiro Itagaki

“The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.”

Men Children Done Cities Jew Burning Shooting Treatment Allies Men Women Bombing Phosphorus

Author:Otto Ohlendorf

“Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.”

Bigs Left Realizing Born Cities New York Expectations New York City

Author:Joseph Pisani

“As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.”

People Thinking Trying Helping Cities New York Band Adults New York City Vegan Good Friend Homeless Making A Living Homeless People

Author:Rachel Trachtenburg

“[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.”

Want Littles Home Views Cities New York Strange Dating Point Of View New York City Items Rummage Sales

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.”

Cities Danger Taste Adults Excess Vegas Las Vegas Disneyland Good Taste

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.”

World Spiritual Social Cities Moral Products Civilization Zone Belts Avenues Epitome

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.”

Ends Country Problem Religious Cities Moral Awful Lifts Suggestions

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.”

Dream Cities Fascinating Rome Impressive Venice Enchantment Florence Picturesque Naples

Author:Lilian Whiting

“The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.”

Religious Race Cities Responsibility Civilization Originals Incapable Monk Breeding Chastity Singles

Author:Kylie Tennant

“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.”

Men Whole Body Might Turns Lost Community Cities Dying Havens Taste Busy Graves Occasions Mates Good Taste Breach Undertaker

Book:Lost Haven

Source: Lost Haven

“When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.”

Rooms Cities Poverty Forever Objects Impression Useless Destined Garbage Crystals Living Room Dump Velvet Cushions Satin Chandeliers Favelas

Book:Beyond All Pity

Source: Beyond All Pity

“I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.”

Way Rooms Cities Poverty Office Garden Governors Yards Garbage Palaces Living Room Mayors Dining Dining Rooms Favelas

Book:Beyond All Pity

Source: Beyond All Pity

“It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.”

Way Different Cities Connected Paris Different Ways Village Dedicated

Book:A Funny Thing Happened on the Way

Source: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way

“It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.”

Littles Secret Cities Towns Patient Dirty Pleasant Thoughtful Commerce Polite Chamber New Yorkers Epidemics Niceness Surly Chamber Of Commerce

Book:Every Step You Take

Source: Every Step You Take

“But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.”

People Feels Children Real Kids Past Cities Environment Adults Roots Raised Pops Teenager Hollow Incomplete Like Something Suburbs Movie Sets

Book:Hush

Source: Hush

“New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.”

Writing Seems Faces Lines Cities Streets Havens Weight Towns Appearance I Realized Acknowledge Volume Gloom Unfinished Every Second Unwritten

Author:Sara Suleri

“Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.”

Has Beens Made Stills Names Belief Cities Walking Sacred Discrimination Knees Gas Stations Wounded Pencils Crutches Gas Stations

Book:Not vanishing

Source: Not vanishing

“I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.”

Persons Shows Night Cities Fans Huge Grew Grew Up Moved Chicago Impressed Second City

Author:Kathy Griffin

“I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.”

Source: The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).

“The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.”

Natural Cities Cost Increase Customers Gas Natural Gas

Author:Ruth Graham

“Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.”

World Country Matter Speak Language Cities Lovers Clothes Continents Don't Change Family Friends Clothes You Wear

Book:Ketchup Clouds

Source: Ketchup Clouds

“There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”

Men World Humans Children Purpose Artist Loses Cities Roles Darkness Forever Mines Duty Sight Forests Conquer Wilderness Feds Precise Conquest Dwelling Swamps Drained Dwelling Place

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Would your city weep if your church did not exist?”

Ifs Church Cities

Author:Darrin Patrick

“I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.”

Want Cities Source Immigration Source Of Strength

Author:Martin Firrell

“I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.”

People Want Cities Live By

Author:Martin Firrell

“L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.”

People Thinking Sleep Cities Nice New York Eating Sunshine Squares Broadway Nighttime Sushi Never Sleep Nightlife Times Square

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist feels local and small. Social media feels now.”

World Feels States Artist Social Cities Media New York Scene Social Media Locals Just One New York City Devoted Nyc

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.”

People Believe Ideas Care Artist Culture I Believe Levels Rooms Cities Streets New York Crowds I Believe In Access New York City Fabric I Care Who Cares Harbors Populist Diffusion

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.”

Cities Planets Birth Most Amazing Nyc

Author:Moby

“My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."”

People Knows Writing Said Different School Together Law Stuff Cities Crazy My Friends Mail Site They Said Buddy Law School Love To Read

Author:Tucker Max

“No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.”

Helping Law Cities Situation Police France Immigrants Sections Assimilation

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I would have handled it differently than the mayor of Baltimore, that's for sure. I think it's a mistake to say, hey, guys, you can pillage the city for a while and we'll let that go, and we'll be sort of standing back. I think it's also important to know some of the underlying causes of why there's unease in our country.”

Thinking Knows Important Country Guy Causes Cities Mistake Standing Our Country Hey Mayors Baltimore

Author:Rand Paul

“Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.”

War Winning Levels Cities Impossible Theory Response Defeat Reasonable Appropriate Bombing Retaliation

Author:Newt Gingrich

“People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.”

People Thinking Giving Wells Two Shows Cities Investment Concerts Arena Symbolic Monetary Boost

Author:Al Sharpton

“If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.”

Ifs Mind Nations Cities Eating Trapped Adore Cuisine Japanese Food

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.”

Wells May America Culture Cities Expensive Canada Bus Affordable Being Cool Toronto Vancouver Montreal Halifax

Author:Grimes

“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.”

“Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.”

World Bigs Left Cities Brother Filled Lifestyle Traditional Elders Big Cities Younger Brother

Author:Timothy Keller

“New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.”

Doe Hard Poor Cities New York Identity Cost Elsewhere Affluence Over The Top

Author:Anna Quindlen

“If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.”

Ifs Knows Want Important Different Whole Night Cities Know How Available Every Night Saturday Gigs Saturday Night Portland

Author:Garth Brooks

“I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.”

Cities Shops Online

Author:Russell Westbrook

“A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.”

Secret Cities Symbols Kitchen Capitol Domes

Author:Leslie Ford

“It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.”

People Ifs Should Seems Cities Fairs Should Have Commodity Quarrels Hog Staples Not Pretty

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans

“[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world.”

World Should America Left Cities Land New York Fairs Population Proportion New York City

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans

“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

Ifs Reality Imagination Space Secret Cities Cutting New York Poet Creating Tradition Myth Disappear London Paris Rome Sail Floats Moscow Leningrad

Author:Nina Berberova

“Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.”

Today Cities Reflection Essence Yesterday Symbols France Paris Geography

Author:Nina Berberova

“[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.”

Ifs Water Cities New York Rose Invisible Visible Temples Tall Gothic Detached

Author:Nina Berberova

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