- Nov 07, 2020
City Quotes
Every city leaves its own kind of mark.
Several of these quotes settle on New York specifically - raising children there, chasing a ballet career through its top companies, or building a life around it after moving from elsewhere. Others reflect on falling in love with a campus city the way you'd love Paris. See Cities Quotes for more.
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- Mumbai
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my first Bollywood movie, 'Ekk Deewana Tha,' my mum also came over because Mumbai was completely new to me, and I'd heard it's a huge city.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played in practically every city in Scotland, and loads of towns as well. I just feel very grateful that I'm able to do that.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Manhattan resident, I'm gutted by what certain landlords are doing, pushing folks who have lived in their apartments for decades out of their homes, as a greedy tactic to get more rent from newer tenants. It's one of the most disgusting, inhumane things I've ever witnessed in my beautiful city.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The energy that New York exudes is as much the light of extinguished souls as it is the spark of individual enterprise. And while the full meaning of the city may prove elusive, all New Yorkers are painfully aware that it remains an intractable mass of contradictions. It is not just the extremes of wealth and poverty living side by side.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020