- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frequently I get asked if I'd rather have spent my career in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, where the exposure would be greater than in Seattle. My answer is no, not at all. Exposure is not important to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is a wonderful, vibrant city with wonderful food cultures to it, wonderful talent downtown.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds.
- Nov 07, 2020
L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.
- Good Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a scene.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies that get started and built in New York City tend to be applied technology.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the Trump tax plan, we are no longer going to subsidize big government in blue states. Now those who choose to live in blue states are going to have to join with their neighbors, collect their pitchforks, and demand tax and spending cuts from city hall and the state capital.
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- Nov 07, 2020