- Great
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first things I did when I finished my Ph.D. was work with the police to look at what happened during the London riots in 2011, which took over the city.
- Hardened
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many palaces, happily decorated with cherubs and other symbols of the baroque era. The city made an indelible impression on me.
- Forty Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woody Allen was the reason I wanted to move to New York City and one of the reasons I wanted to make films. I felt that I understood his films, and I love them so much. When you're starting out, certainly, you have this sense of wanting to talk back to people who have influenced you, and I always wanted to talk back to Woody Allen.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the time I was Miss America, I had come to New York City because I had decided I wanted to try to get into television.
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020