Cities Quotes - Page 27

• When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch. It's going to be pornography, 'Sex and the City,' or maybe funny videos of cats.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Sex, Cat, Rights

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• We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

  Nikola Tesla

  Country, Hurt, Get Well

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

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• And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Years, Careers

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• The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

  Michel de Certeau

  Practice, Oblivion, Possibility

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.

  Michel de Certeau

  Moving, Writing, Practice

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• More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

  Michel de Certeau

  Oddities, Opaque, Transparency

  Michel de Certeau, Pierre Mayol (1998). “The Practice of Everyday Life: Living and cooking. Volume 2”, p.134, U of Minnesota Press

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• What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.

  Nik Wallenda

  Beautiful, Night, Chicago

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2014.

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• As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.

  David Mixner

  Spiritual, Adventure, Healing

  "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

  Addison Mizner

  Simple, Florida, Giving

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• This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.

  Lauren Conrad

  Dream, Chance, Happens

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• I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

  Jean Plaidy

  Years, London, Lucky

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• After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  War, Cameras, Actors

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• There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

  Irwin Redlener

  Events, Nuclear, Terrorist

  "Nuclear blast victims would have to wait". usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of the world’s population. Already there are many who prefer this crowded life, but there are others who do not, and these will gradually be eliminated. Life in the crowded conditions of cities has many unattractive features, but in the long run these may be overcome, not so much by altering them, but simply by changing the human race into liking them.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Running, Men, Civilization

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• If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

  John Kruk

  Wall, Kansas City, Royal

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• There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Gourmet, Flavor, Waste

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• People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling.

  Jerry Izenberg

  Sports, Home, Pride

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• In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.

  John Dykstra

  Girl, Men, Spiders

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• Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.

  Bridget Hall

  Snowboarding, Utah, Parks

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• There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

  Taylor Hanson

  New York, Empires, Pennies

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• Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Responsibility, Water, Effort

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• I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

  Cobi Jones

  Years, Two, California

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• My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

  Questlove

  Radio, Gigs, Firsts

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

  Tipper Gore

  Email, Tools, Use

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

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• I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

  Harold H. Greene

  Fun, Political, Politician

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