Urban Quotes - Page 11

• When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Space

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• The rage building up, generation after generation, among what has become a permanent underclass in many parts of the world cannot continue. We are desperately undereducating our children. In the United States, we are turning prison-building into the single largest urban industry. These are like toxic chemical factors any one of which could cause a raging fire. God help us if they begin to interact.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Fire, Building Up

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I did Urban Zen for myself, to make clothes for me and my friends, a similar philosophy to when I started Donna Karan. Except this time I hope it will stay that way so that I will be able to support young designers and mentor them.

  Donna Karan

  Philosophy, Clothes, Support

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

  Etgar Keret

  Mean, Names, Challenges

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

  Sxip Shirey

  Way, Tradition, Composer

  "Sxip Shirey’s Magic Journey: Sonic New York" by Holly Cara Price, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2010.

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• I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.

  Stan Lee

  Kids, Unique, Superhero

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• If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Carpe Diem, People, Generations

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• There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

  Will Rogers

  Simple, Government, Car

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• Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, People, Feelings

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• Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.

  William J. Mitchell

  Successful, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

  David Chipperfield

  Engineering, Years, Cake

  "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Simple, Issues, Decision

  "Cities bear the brunt of air pollution - they can also solve it" by Leo Hollis, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2014.

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• Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Christianity, Pleasure

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Evolutionary Agents”, p.43, Ronin Publishing

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• The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.

  Peter Haggett

  Religious, Book, Unique

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• Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.

  Freeman Patterson

  Children, Animal, Rocks

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• Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful.

  Cory Trepanier

  Beautiful, Urban Development, Space

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• The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Ignorance, Government, Gentleman

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.73, Verso

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• Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.

  Russell Baker

  Talking, People, May

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.

  E. O. Wilson

  Self, Class, Identity

  "On Human Nature". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1978.

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• The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.

  Pat Buchanan

  Second Amendment, Arms, Fields

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• Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.

  Robert Hormats

  Smart, Cities, Safety

  "Seizing the Opportunities of Global Urbanization: The New Frontier in America’s International Economic Policy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

  Martin Freeman

  Military, Old School, Cutting

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• Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.

  David Letterman

  Football, New York, Congratulations

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• I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It's one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity.

  Terry Crews

  People, Giving, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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