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“I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's - I really wasn't happy and ecstatic like I thought I (would be). I was immediately hit with the enormity of the responsibility and the fact that most people in that town - particularly those that voted for me were placing their hopes and dreams in me. That is a big, big stressful place to be.”

People Firsts Facts Feelings Dream Bigs Would Be Cities Responsibility Towns Election Scared Nervous Shock Stressful Ecstatic Hopes And Dreams

Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.”

Years Games Stars Cities Four Streets Events Building Majors Built Baseball Seven Finals League Parks Hotel Bowls Recreation Fixing Super Bowl Major League All Stars Major League Baseball

Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.”

White Cities Percent African American Detroit Suburbs Michigan

Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.”

Art Different Home Opportunity Cities Pieces Nice Streets Scene Architecture Playgrounds Great Opportunity Hong Kong

Author:Invader

“Each piece that I put in the street is unique. I never make the same piece twice. For Hong Kong, like for every city where I have worked, I try to adapt my work to the culture and the 'colors' of the city.”

Trying Culture Cities Pieces Streets Color Unique Hong Kong

Author:Invader

“New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."”

Needs Made Home Would Be Funny Cities Comedy New York Grew Grew Up Yeah Addresses Holiday Pounds Drivers Rip Back Home Paranoid Cab Tokyo Inns Stomping Cab Drivers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."”

Thinking Littles Stories Bigs Today Funny Cities Comedy Crime Tvs News Blue Handle Hey Lame Jackpot Tv News

Author:Brian Regan

“In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.”

Writing Reality Used House Views Business Cities Morning Novel Entrepreneurship San Francisco Virginia Loaded Victorian Great American Great Cities Joyce

Author:Tom Peters

“The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.”

Knows Wells Art Cities Talent New York Thousand Ambition Excellence Western Ministers Anarchy Nurture Suggestions Miraculous Ingenuity Experimentation Manifold

Book:Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

“New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.”

People Way Hard Home Artist Sides Cities New York Safety Majority Filled Desperate Tranquility Jungle Scams

Author:Scott Cohen

“New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.”

People Ifs Turns Cities New York Identity Remove Colorless

Author:Cate Marvin

“While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.”

Thinking Country Cities Quiet Adults Boring Best Place

Author:Jacob Hashimoto

“I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.”

Thinking Way Important Country White Cities Accepting Lucky Safe Males Wealthy

Author:Dan Mangan

“In Sweeden every city looks the same. I've been to sixteen cities, and every single city is the same! The same cobblestone, the same McDonalds, the same everything. Everything was designed by the same guy. They must have saved a lot of money when they designed all the cities.”

Looks Guy Cities Saved Lots Of Money Sixteen Mcdonalds Cobblestone

Author:Pablo Francisco

“We will introduce an electric car by 2015. It will be a completely new vehicle concept for mega-cities. We would also have it developed if, contrary to expectations, it did not turn a profit in its first life cycle.”

Ifs Firsts Turns Cities Car Expectations Concepts Profit Contrary Cycles Vehicle Introducing Electric Mega Electric Car

Author:Norbert Reithofer

“My heart and my love is in the country because something feels pure and noble and good there, but at the same time, obedience draws me to cities, which are full of cultures that are interesting and fun. I always swore I hated New York. Since having this revelation that cities are where people are, where the need is, I'm growing to love New York.”

People Needs Feels Heart Country Culture Fun Love Is Interesting Cities Growing New York My Heart Pure Draws Noble Obedience Hated Revelations

Author:Josh Garrels

“None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion.”

Cities Car Solutions Accidents Gas Traffic Affordable Leaks Car Accident Congestion Traffic Congestion

Author:Mark Noble

“One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.”

Needs Important Cities Roles Study Areas Documents Transportation Dense Facilitate Tapestry Coordination

Author:Mark Noble

“As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.”

People Country School Individual Cities Issues Teaching Awareness Educational Usa Classroom Raising Awareness

Author:Wendy Kopp

“I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.”

Thinking Children I Can Kids Wish Parent Can Do My Own Cities New York Raises Raised New York City Manhattan

Author:Woody Allen

“A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.”

Stills Kids Moving Cities Scene Edges Scary Great Music Baltimore Bohemian

Author:John Waters

“I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.”

Made Film Cities Ashamed

Author:John Waters

“The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a Web site saying, "Please stay." I love the people in the city. I've literally sat on the bench with a towel on my head crying, because I feel the passion in the stands.”

People Feels Passion Cities Cry Please Sat Site Benches Burgers Towels Orlando Saying Please Please Stay

Author:Dwight Howard

“I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that is what other people call you. But I consider myself a member of a community in Salt Lake City, in Utah, in the American West, in this country. And writing is what I do. That is the tool out of which I can express my love.”

People Thinking Knows Writing I Can Country Community Cities Struggle Members Tools West Lakes Salt Utah American West Salt Lake City

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah.”

People Feels Spiritual Cities Five Generations Six Roots Connected Lakes Salt Sovereignty Trails Canyons Utah Emigration Salt Lake City

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.”

Thinking Heart Stills Cities Break My Heart Lakes Salt Richness Texture Heart Break Utah Daily Living Salt Lake City

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."”

“Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.”

“When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.”

Today Jobs Cities Growing Up Growing Player Team Football Seasons Drinking Stores Holes Neighborhood Mechanic Furniture Football Player Baltimore Off Season Colts

Author:Barry Levinson

“I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.”

Ifs Wells May Long Character Might Memories Cities Reader Circumstances Hundred Painful Intense Instance Excitement Remarkable Long Ago Baltimore

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“We are changing the way we govern ourselves - not just in the way we work in New Delhi, but also in the way we work together with state governments, districts and cities. Because we know, as you do, that our vision may be formed in Delhi, but our success will be determined by state capitals.”

Knows Way May States Government Together Cities Vision India Determined Working Together Governance State Government Delhi

Author:Narendra Modi

“We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.”

People Needs Cities Empowerment India Assuming Lifestyle Aspiration Village Need A Change

Author:Narendra Modi

“I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.”

Ideas Light Cities Silence Wonder Darkness Higher Conspiracy City Lights

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.”

Cities New York New York City I Love New York

Author:Mike Myers

“Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.”

Ifs Thinking World Ideas Might Cities Economy Middle Huge Connected Etc Eastern Asian Obsolete Skyscraper World Economy Cities In The World Shanghai Dubai

Author:Paul Goldberger

“What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938 he said that in a future war British cities would be attacked by bombing, and that the response would be that all men would want to join the fight because they would be so incensed by this cowardly manner of attack. Which is a very natural response: when something drops on you from the air and blows up a bunch of buildings and kills people in their sleep, the reaction is going to be rage, confusion, and a search for something to destroy in retaliation.”

People Men Want Said War Would Be Fighting Natural Sleep Cities Air Building Response Blow British Rage Reactions Bunch Confusion Bombing Cowardly Retaliation Puzzling

Author:Nicholson Baker

“I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.”

Political Politics Cities Occasions Seats Governors Parliament Antagonist Deputies Every Occasion

Author:William E. Gladstone

“...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.”

Ifs States Law Political Politics Lost Cities Constitution Fundamentals Greek Necks Proposal Revision Nooses

Author:Aristotle

“It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.”

Source: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.”

Thinking Knows Hard Seems Black Justice Cities Streets Land Diversity Social Justice Folks Stranger Granted Each Day Suspects Farms Pavement City Streets

Author:Richard Wright

“The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.”

World Earth Cities Towns Sticks Axes

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind".”

“The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.”

Years Firsts Stills Cities Painting Six Garden Delight Realised Six Year Olds Madrid

Author:Carolina Herrera

“We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.”

“Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.”

World Mother Heaven Church Cities Marriage Self Love Kingdoms Preserves Love And Marriage

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons

“Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable—not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.”

Book Moments Would Be Cities Existence Imagine Stage Security New York Projects Islam Musical Productions New York City Jerusalem Unimaginable Baghdad Precaution Beirut

Author:Sam Harris

“Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.”

Nations Cities New York Pot New York City Dishes Melting Melting Pot Charcoal Casseroles Chafing

Author:John Lindsay

“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing”

Lying Cities Pieces Wind Broken Kings Ancient Vanity Desert Howl Vulture Broken Pieces

Author:Sting

“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.”

“Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.”

Bigs Cities New York Gun Machines Ultimate Characteristics Rising Desperate Traffic Urgency Pedestrians American Cities Machine Guns

Book:Ship of Shadows

Source: Ship of Shadows

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