Cities Quotes - Page 38

• I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

  John Guare

  Mean Girls, New York, World

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• In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal.

  Miguel Serrano

  Perseverance, War, Hero

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• New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from her, and then we realize why we are restless. At home or away, we are homesick for New York not because New York used to be better and not because she used to be worse but because the city holds us and we don't know why.

  Maeve Brennan

  New York, Home, Heart

  Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker”, p.79, Counterpoint

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• When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry.

  Burial

  Song, Rain, Dark

  "Only five people know I make tunes". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE

  George B. Cortelyou

  Ambition, Earth, Reason

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• What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV.

  Donald Sterling

  Girl, Sex, Guy

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• Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?'
  Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

  Martha Wells

  Flower, Moon, Dubious

  Martha Wells (2012). “The Serpent Sea”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
  like home.

  Simon Van Booy

  Home, Lost, Feels

  Simon van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.16, Oneworld Publications

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• I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.

  Andy Spade

  Ocean, Years, California

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• If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Country, America, Towns

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• Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Race, Flames, Three

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin

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• It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

  Diane Frolov

  Sleep, Church, Sides

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• A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the national system.
  The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people... To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Roots, People, Depth

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• The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

  Jaime Lerner

  Problem, Solutions

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• I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

  Frank Sinatra

  Sleep, Wake Up, Want

  Song: New York, New York

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• We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Risk

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• San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

  Cecil Beaton

  San Francisco, Bay Area, European Countries

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• The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.

  Nic Sheff

  Sex, Real, Dark

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Ideas

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

  Smedley Butler

  Brother, Wall, Boys

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• You don't need Tom Wolfe to tell you that the Buckhead section of Atlanta is the jewel of the city, an area of gracious homes, elegant hotels and shopping centers, as well as some of the best restaurants.

  Florence Fabricant

  Home, Atlanta, Jewels

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• To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

  Harvey Milk

  Believe, Color, Important

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• The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it.

  Johann Hari

  Pain, War, Thinking

  "Johann Hari: 'I failed badly. When you harm people, you should shut up, go away and reflect on what happened'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2015.

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• The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

  Lori Lansens

  Country, People, Shining

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.46, Vintage Canada

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