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“I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.”

Thinking Way Cities Gone New York Directors Authority Capacity Budgets Appropriate Albany

Author:Joe Lhota

“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.”

Thinking Suffering Perfect Cities Talking Seeing Happened Honest Nostalgia Being Honest Beloved Flaws Baltimore

Author:Laura Lippman

“I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.”

Thinking Years Next Cities Streets Mass Disappear Thirty Internals Engines Transportation Thirty Years Electrical Combustion Electrical Power

Author:Gaylord Nelson

“I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.”

People Thinking Want Kind Stills Care America Opportunity Cities Violence Take Care Educated Get Back Aspire Workforce

Author:Michael Nutter

“Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.”

Thinking God Cities Company Known Easier Harmony Seekers Dwellers Truth Seekers

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.”

Thinking Way Mind May Simple Cities New York Quiet Inspired

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.”

Thinking Stills I Can Kids Age Certain Left Grows Cities Growing Up Alive Chicago Realised

Author:Chance the Rapper

“Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.”

Thinking Helping Energy Cities Car Majors Mass Program India Tiny Finance Developing Pollution Electric Adoption Brazil Accommodate Renewable Energy Grids Congestion Electric Car

Author:Ginni Rometty

“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 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.”

People Thinking World Made Cities New York Grew Grew Up Winter London Insane Shooting Los Angeles Chicago Philadelphia Pittsburgh Norway

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.”

People Thinking Knows World Believe War Ends Beautiful Cities Car Areas War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Berlin Detroit Really Beautiful

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“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

“Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.”

Thinking Knows Needs Today Race Cities New York Tough New York City Invited Marathon Think Twice

Author:Martin Lel

“I'm a huge fan of John Hughes and can say that 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is easily a top 3 favorite. I'm also a huge fan of all the Second City talent, and I think my Dad and Bill Murray are long lost twins.”

Thinking Long Lost Cities Fans Talent Huge Dad Bills Train My Dad Planes Twins Automobile Second City

Author:Ryan McPartlin

“Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.”

People Thinking Long Young Stuff Cities Steps Millions Five New York Areas Breaths Moved Busy Realising Farms Transition Dirt Centre Where You Come Dirt Roads

Author:Diego Klattenhoff

“I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.”

Ifs Thinking Long Running Natural Cities Issues Development Economics Attractive Expensive Neighborhood Long Runs Smarter Evident Seattle City Life

Author:Stone Gossard

“Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.”

Thinking Knows Cities Atlanta

Author:Ivan Allen, Jr.

“Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.”

Thinking Stills Nations Cities Projects Died Merit Australia Centre

Author:Susan Oliver

“'Yo I'm from Africa' Boy you're just a faker. Name one city: 'Uhh, Jamaica!' Wrong! And I think that's a shame, An African look with an American name.”

Thinking Looks Names Cities Boys Shame Hip Hop Rap Jamaica

Author:King Sun

“Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you women to symbolise the City and He calls that City His Bride, the New Heaven, the New Jerusalem! How about that? He couldn't think of anything more beautiful to symbolise that City than you, you beautiful girls, so He called it His Bride! Why? Because His Bride's going to live there!”

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Author:David Berg

“It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.”

Ifs Thinking Years Hard Heaven Cities Thousand Eternity Busy Clouds Wounds Ridiculous Unhappy Bored Heavenly Thousand Years Millennium Harps

Author:David Berg

“I've visited the future and I've seen the Heavenly City standing upon this Earth!-Beautiful, gorgeous, incomparable, almost indescribable, the most gorgeous sight you'll ever want to see! A beautiful pyramid-shaped City like the ancient Egyptian pyramids, only much more beautiful!-That Golden City like crystal gold, pyramid-shaped, 1500 miles wide! Think of it! And 1500 miles high!”

Thinking Want Earth Beautiful Cities Standing Gold Sight Ancient Wide Miles Golden Heavenly Gorgeous Crystals Pyramids Egyptian Indescribable Incomparable Ancient Egyptian Egyptian Pyramids

Author:David Berg

“The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!”

“I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Cities If I Could

Author:Jemaine Clement

“I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.”

“Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city.”

Ifs Thinking Jobs America Cities Mom Hardest Single Mom Baltimore Hardest Job Being A Single Mom Jobs In America

Author:Dana Perino

“We need to review our policies as it applies to urban cities - You see, I'm losing either of them, but especially cities like Baltimore, we need to review them and I think we should come with no pre conception.”

Thinking Needs Should Cities Policy Losing Conception Reviews Urban Baltimore

Author:Julie Roginsky

“As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.”

Thinking Kids Cities Class Tree Wall Areas Towns Impulse Climbs Small Town Dance Class Rural Areas Boyish

Author:Jamie Bell

“I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.”

Thinking Cities New York Comfort Comfortable Skins New York City Comfortable In Your Own Skin

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.”

Thinking World Whole Earth Beautiful Cities Poet Universal Whole World Admiration Scream Princess Sailor Merchants Diplomats Beautiful Places Istanbul Westerners Northerners

Author:Edmondo De Amicis

“You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.”

People Thinking World Littles Beautiful Race Cities Wonderful Car Shoes Hills Bridges Friendly Sunlight Sailing San Francisco Cables Pacific Beautiful City Sardines Chinatown

Author:Dylan Thomas

“I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.”

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“You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and she was elected to city council. A dead woman actually elected! And I'm thinking, well, I guess there is still hope for Al Gore.”

Thinking Knows Wells Stills Politics Cities Week Election Als Council Gore Ballots Pennsylvania City Council

Author:David Letterman

“Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.”

People Thinking Knows Wells States Helping Used Cities Talking Cold Stores Weather Miserable Miserable People Music City

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.”

“It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].”

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Author:Golda Meir

“I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned up without the federal government needing to be involved. I think we would have been much better served from the start if people would have better understood the principles of private property.”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Whole Government Cities Principles Sun Sky Grew Involved Grew Up Understood Property Federal Government Noon Private Property Pittsburgh

Author:Ron Paul

“My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Bigs Wanted Stuff Parent Cities Lord Comedy Fans Dad Jazz My Dad Lakes Salt Hipster Beatnik Salt Lake City

Author:Judd Apatow

“Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.”

Thinking Way Trying Play Might Happens Together Cities Jazz Architecture Working Together Liquid

Author:Frank Gehry

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?”

“While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.”

Thinking Feels I Can Home America My Own Cities New York Identity Labels Rejects New York City Constructs

Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.”

People Thinking Want Should Persons Cities Crazy Should Have Los Angeles Sane Crazy People

Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

“Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.”

Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

“Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.”

Thinking Men Kind Evil Cities New York Yeah Great Cities Necessary Evil

Author:Will Arnett

“We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking.”

Thinking Believe Government I Believe Easy Sound Cities New York Expression Picks Yeah Data New York City God We Trust City Government

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress, or some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing presence that seduces and lures people. I think Barcelona has a lot of that.”

People Thinking Men Kind Dark Cities Poet Creatures Vain Organisms Lure Seducing Living Creatures Barcelona Madrid Enticing Sorceress Enchantress

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.”

Thinking Believe Kids Wanted Jobs Stuff Sports Community Cities Path Minutes Media New York Fields Demand Baseball Balls Leaving Hitting Going Out Catching Seattle Narrow Path Baseball Field

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.”

Thinking Way Different Literature Cities Different Ways

Author:Marilyn Hacker