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“L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.”

Bigs Cities Twenties Stores One Time Convenience Accommodate Robbers

Author:Jay Leno

“According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.”

Knows Humor Care Funny America Cities Too Much New York Beats Twenties Don't Care Fifth Places To Live Best Place Pittsburgh Caring Too Much

Author:David Letterman

“Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.”

“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”

Years Stills Belief Cities Twenties Absence Paris Thirty Persistent Thirty Years Year One Nothing Ever Changes

Book:Outside

Source: Outside

“In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.”

People World Firsts Believe Whole Seems Fun Wealth Cities Path Century Twenties Prosperity Posts Vegas Las Vegas Tourism Gaming Vistas Fun Work

Book:The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

Source: The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

“Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.”

Together Cities Half India Twenties Working Together Dozen

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”

Years Has Beens Wisdom Hands Loss Cities Five Hundred Letters Twenties Infinite Wit Temples Verses Castles Palaces Monument Miscellaneous Twenty Five Syllables

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

Ifs Bigs Light Parent Born Cities Written Generations Twenties Tao Clicks Gary Big Cities Bright Lights

Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.”

World Culture Given Term Cities Gone New York Twenties Around The World African American Evolve Chicago Continuing New Orleans American Culture American Music African American Music

Author:David Simon

“I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.”

Years I Can Book Ends Sleep Cities Technology Mystery Advice Missing Years Ago Twenties Fellows West Maps Bus Google Unpredictable Passengers West Africa Travel Books Google Maps

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.”

“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"”

“I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.”

Years Two Used Cities New York Son Twenties Moved Nine Two Years My Son New York City Nine Years Massachusetts Cambridge Two Year Olds

Author:Errol Morris

“I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.”

Littles Feelings Kids Wanted Lost Strong Cities Gone Air Sea Land Identity Twenties Green Los Angeles Very Strong Little Kid Slides Cement Strong Feeling

Author:Robert Redford

“Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.”

Ifs Stories Wanted Three Cities Angel Window Twenties Blind Flying Grey Smog

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.”

“The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive and lead the way in the transformation required to combat global warming? Resilient Cities gives us a road map for this epic journey upon which we are embarking.”

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Author:Greg Nickels

“When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.”

Way Want Giving Littles Used Guy Cities Streets New York Goes On Give Me Twenties Shoes Blow Boxes Dust New York City Bucks Orchard

Author:Tom Waits

“Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

Men Believe I Believe Cities Twenties Paris City Life Older Women Odessa Demography

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

Men Believe Age I Believe Sex Cities Changed Twenties London Teenager Paris Feminine Rome City Life Dickens Older Women Odessa Demography

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

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