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“Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.”

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Author:Questlove

“Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.”

People Knows Results Cities Five Youth College Industry Entertainment Cracks Lots Of Money Businessman Usage Entertainment Industry Inner City

Author:Questlove

“All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.”

People Knows World Moments Cities Growing Up Too Much Growing New York Grew Grew Up Connections Corporate New York City Involving Spurs Corporate World Too Much Work Spur Of The Moment

Author:Luc Sante

“My ideal city is more like the city (New York and Paris come to mind, but it sort of applies to all) that existed up to and including the 1930s, when different classes lived all together in the same neighborhoods, and most businesses of any sort were mom-and-pop, and people and things had a local identity.”

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Author:Luc Sante

“Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.”

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Author:Edward Hopper

“New York. Truly, this is the only city that I feel this energy. Everyone is accepted. This is the first place that I felt open and that I can do everything.”

Feels Firsts I Can Energy Felt Can Do Cities New York Accepted

Author:Elie Tahari

“I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it's really busy and it's like the real city and then I come to Miami and I'm just in a happy place.”

Real Cities New York Balance Inspired Busy Miami Happy Place

Author:Nina Agdal

“Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that you've never been to before, then finding your way through. That's the type of trip that excites me.”

Way Cities Type Findings Ordinary Boxes Airplane Jumping Landing Finding Your Way

Author:Dhani Jones

“The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.”

Bigs Differences Cities Five Competition London Instance Bloody Orchestra Big Cities

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.”

People Art Eye Cities Passing Passings Fascinating Things Change People Changing Changing Everything

Author:Greg Lake

“You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.”

Want Different Cities Healthy Stores Shopping Malls

Author:Greg Lake

“We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our ways of life, how separated we are. When we moved out of the cities and we lost all of the memory that was in cities, and we - one of the highest achievements in our culture is to be able to segregate yourself from everyone else, and the deep thing is the deepest punishment is solitary confinement.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.”

Way Firsts Certain House Cities Conditions Possibility Projects London Reactions Frustration Subconscious Norm New Possibilities Being Played

Author:David Adjaye

“Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.”

World Spirit Community Cities Five This World Praying Our Family

Author:Cathy Hughes

“Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.”

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Author:Paul Bettany

“[On Los Angeles:] This city is a hundred years old but try and find some trace of its history. Every culture is swallowed up and spat out as a franchise. Taco Bell. Benihana of Tokyo. Numero Uno Pizza. Pup 'N' Taco. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Fast food sushi. Teriyaki Bowl.”

Trying Years Culture Cities Hundred Los Angeles Chickens Bells Bowls Pizza Fast Food Kentucky Tokyo Sushi Tacos Fried Chicken Spats Pups Taco Bell

Author:Anne Finger

“Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.”

Knows Wells Cities Wasted Time

Author:Julian Green

“Yesterday in New York City, Donald Trump officially changed his political affiliation from Republican to Independent. And Donald's hair has switched from pelt to carpet sample.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.”

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Author:Diane Ackerman

“Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!”

Real Cities Morning Shepherds

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning...we had received to beware of entering the city of Mexico, since they would kill us as soon as they had us inside.”

Wells Strong Cities Four Hundred Remembered Warning Mexico Entering

Author:Bernal Diaz del Castillo

“I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”

People Way Made Justice Cities Divine Sorrow Elements Eternal Ultimate Sacred Moved Raised Intellect Abandon Architect Woe Omnipotence Forsaken

Book:The inferno

Source: The inferno

“Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.”

Problem Cities Morality Gun Inner City

Author:Barack Obama

“Bonjour to all the beautiful people of Montreal because this is like home to me. We had Sugar Ray Leonard here who changed the globe and took on Roberto Duran right here in Montreal. How did we get to Montreal? Because it's one of the fairest cities in the world. We were looking for a neutral site and we picked Montreal. Sugar Ray Leonard came in and Roberto Duran beat him - because we got our fair shake in Montreal.”

People World Home Beautiful Cities Changed Beats Fairs Shakes Rays Sugar Globes Site Beautiful People Montreal Cities In The World

Author:Don King

“Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.”

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Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.”

“Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.”

Cities Middle Fine Hills Castles Majestic Norwich

Book:Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

Source: Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

“The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.”

“I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.”

“I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.”

“I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.”

Believe Names Cities Mines Gun Machines Don't Believe Holiness Wire Pins Nests Jerusalem Machine Guns Barbed Wire

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me.”

May Left Cities Clubs Liverpool

Author:Kenny Dalglish

“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”

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Author:Ralph Borsodi

“Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.”

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Author:Andy Warhol

“Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building up our economy. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government. There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that. Therefore, our budget significantly expands our efforts to help them meet their responsibility. I hope you will support it.”

“The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Jobs Cities Activity Tired Surprise Bored Restaurants Customs Traffic Newness Swirls

Book:Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere

Source: Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere

“I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.”

Years Different Cities Company Stage Radio Stations Toronto Second City

Author:Rick Moranis

“Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself.”

Fall Cities Falling In Love Toronto

Author:Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

“The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.”

Soul Political Energy Waiting Cities Restless Political Leadership

Author:Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

“I am honoured to have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleague and fellow poet Mr. Dennis Lee, it will be with pride and passion that I carry forward the mandate of the Poet Laureate position for the City of Toronto and its residents.”

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Author:Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

“That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.”

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Author:Jane Jacobs

“Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.”

May Art Culture Cities Novel Scene Alternatives Mainstream Toronto High Art Mainstream Culture

Author:Stephen Marche

“It's a beautiful city, and the waterfront area is fantastic. I haven't had time to visit the theatre, but I find it remarkable that Toronto has the third-largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, after New York and London. I once noticed a fellow sitting on a bench, then I realized it was a statue of Glenn Gould. It's very realistic.”

“I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here.”

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Author:Tom Cruise

“I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.”

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Author:Roger Martin

“One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville. ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Cities Streets Huge Advantage Winter Available Shooting Location Angle Shocking Intersections

Author:Atom Egoyan

“The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.”

Reason Earth Cities Chinese Toronto Hong Kong

Author:Joel Garreau