Urban Quotes - Page 10

• I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

  Eric Kripke

  Urban Legends, Obsession, Lifelong

  "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.

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• It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

  Richard Louv

  School, Kids, Community

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• Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Long, Unemployment

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• I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Two, Voice, Urban Music

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• Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

  Sara Paretsky

  Country, Mean, Magic

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• Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

  Steven Rattner

  Dresses, Assault, Peddler

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• As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

  Kushal Pal Singh

  Opening Up, India, Reform

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• Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

  Kushal Pal Singh

  Country, Urban Development, Sunrise

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• 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

  Bob Saget

  Years, Crowds, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

  Ken Salazar

  Rural Areas, Colorado, Problem

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• We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cities, Discipline, Design

  "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.

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• I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

  Moshe Safdie

  Taken, Cutting, Agency

  "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.

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• As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

  Richard Serra

  People, Way, Fields

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• Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

  Romeo Santos

  Artist, People, Giving

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• Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Inspiration, Hero, Urban Music

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• For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

  Rupert Brooke

  Smile, People, Squat

  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' (1915)

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• I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.

  Sophie McShera

  Home, Topshop, Streets

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• Hey I think the Urban Meyer rule is in effect right now... When the going gets tough... QUIT.

  Maurice Jones-Drew

  Thinking, Hey, Tough

  "Critics question injured QB's toughness" by Tom Rock, www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.

  Jan Gehl

  Cities, Space, Healthy

  Jan Gehl (2013). “Cities for People”, p.6, Island Press

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• Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

  Stephen Holden

  Heart, Piano, Expectations

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• Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

  Carl Honore

  Europe, Cities, Smell

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• The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Cities, Population, World

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• I try to encourage young people to follow their dreams. Even if you're born in an urban community it's always something available to you whether it be a dance class or whether you do really good in school and you can get a scholarship. So if you just put your mind to it and if you educate people enough and they know that they can find resources to help them get to where they need to go then that's really important.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Dream, School, Class

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