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- Nov 07, 2020
Big Cities Quotes
Reflections on skylines, sameness and isolation.
These big cities quotes describe the strange sameness found across major urban centers, from identical museums to a shared sense of anonymity, alongside the excitement of seeing a new city's Culture for the first time.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.
- Coolness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in a lot of places - London, Germany, Tokyo, Scotland, Ireland, Los Angeles, and New York. The fashion capitals I've lived in - Tokyo, London, and New York - have this stamp of coolness about them. But I've noticed that in big cities in general, people are just less afraid to be themselves when it comes to fashion.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dysfunction in Washington has stalled any meaningful federal action on gun control. So it's increasingly up to big cities like New York to take bold steps to get weapons off our streets and change the national discourse.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
- Bright
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.
- Erect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boys have always known they could do anything; all they had to do was look around at their presidents, religious leaders, professional athletes, at the statues that stand erect in big cities and small. Girls have always known they were allowed to feel anything - except anger.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.
- Freaked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020