- I Am
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- 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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were a single person living in a city, I could support myself, but I probably wouldn't have a blog, because I would have nothing to blog about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the city, starting work at a nonfiction imprint at a reputable publishing house, and excited about being on track to becoming the writer I had always wanted to be.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.
- Neglected
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- Nov 07, 2020
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.
- Bourbon
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority-African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way.
- Mask
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we shift our public dollars away from our schools and city services and into company developments, it increases the root causes of poverty: unemployment, underemployment, lack of community resources, and lack of quality public education.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.
- Shoot
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- Nov 07, 2020