“Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.” WayArtTwoLawGirlHouseCitiesMediaProudTrackExceptionThickPigsDianaCertificatesGuineaGuinea Pigs Author:Peter York
“We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.” PeopleIfsShouldProblemSocialCitiesWorryMediaAnxietySocial MediaMoodDisorderSchizophrenicMood Disorders Author:Nick Harkaway
“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.” ThinkingBelieveKidsWantedJobsStuffSportsCommunityCitiesPathMinutesMediaNew YorkFieldsDemandBaseballBallsLeavingHittingGoing OutCatchingSeattleNarrow PathBaseball Field Author:Alex Rodriguez
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“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.” WorldFeelsStatesArtistSocialCitiesMediaNew YorkSceneSocial MediaLocalsJust OneNew York CityDevotedNyc Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.” Has BeensProblemAmericaPoliticalSocialViewsCitiesMorningSocietyMediaMassDenialParadisePsychologistMass MediaSocial ProblemsInner City Book:Airing Dirty Laundry Source: Airing Dirty Laundry
“I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveCareHappinessCommunityCitiesMediaDon't CarePursue Author:Jeb Bush
“What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.” ThinkingKnowsNightCitiesMediaProductsTerribleMakersHalloweenCandyMayors Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.” CitiesViolenceChildhoodMediaMassNewspapersAdvertisingUnpredictable1960sCirculationShanghaiPortents Author:J. G. Ballard
“There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a whole, Baghdad was always known as a famously bookish, intellectual city. There's an old saying that Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads.” WorldWritingWholeCitiesKnownWrittenMediaIntellectualWesternAsiaPublishBaghdadOld SayingArab WorldBeirutCairoWestern Media Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“I want Christians to consider who they vote for. We look a lot at the presidential elections. And that's where so much of our focus is, especially from the media, but some of the most important elections are the local elections - the mayors, city council members, county commissioners, school boards. How important school boards are - and we need to get Christian men and women running for office. We need Christian men and women not only running for office, but voting and getting behind other Christians that are running for office.” MenWantNeedsLooksImportantRunningSchoolChristianCitiesBehindsFocusMediaMembersOfficeMen And WomenVoteElectionLocalsPresidentialBoardsVotingCouncilCountyMayorsPresidential ElectionCommissionersRunning For OfficeSchool BoardCity Council Author:Franklin Graham
“With feminism social media just opened up its boundaries even more. Now all these different tribes of women can connect with each other, and also find each other if they're not living in the same city, or even if they are but they're not friends with the same people!” PeopleIfsDifferentSocialCitiesFeminismMediaSocial MediaBoundariesTribesNot Friends Author:Petra Collins
“"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."” BigsCitiesTreeMediaPaperNosesExpertsShakesBentPapersBig CitiesGorillas Author:Edwin Diamond
“Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.” StatesLeftCitiesMediaPositionFitBlueSpectrum Author:Andrew Breitbart