Downtown Quotes

• Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

  Andy Warhol

  People, Uptown, Done

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• Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Light, Wonder, Infinite

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

  Tony Hatch

  Lonely, Being Alone, Solitude

  Tony Hatch (1976). “So you want to be in the music business”

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• I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

  Paul Simon

  Mother, Children, Eggs

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• People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

  Jack White

  People, Amenities

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• It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

  Ed McMahon

  Community, Kind, Parking

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• I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

  Thomas Reid

  Renaissance, Wanted

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• When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
  Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
  So maybe I'll see you there
  We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go
  Downtown, things'll be great when you're
  Downtown, don't wait a minute more
  Downtown, everything's waiting for you

  Petula Clark

  Song, Hands, Waiting

  "Song: "Downtown" ("Downtown")". 1965.

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• When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

  Tony Hatch

  Worry, Silence, Noise

  "Song: "Downtown" ("Downtown")". 1965.

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• Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

  Andrew Weil

  Talking, Years, Two

  "Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

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• Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Travel, Fall, Home

  Song: A Thousand Miles, Album: Be Not Nobody

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• I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

  James Van Der Beek

  New York, Past, Cities

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

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• I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Careers, People, Littles

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• I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty that I recognize as a part of me, a part of all of us that celebrates life. It's my great pleasure to share with you that energy which inspires me; this great visual beauty of our world.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Beautiful, Cities, Our World

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

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• You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

  Jane Jacobs

  People, Rely

  "Carson CoxSam YorkAustin Brown - 'Fire Dance'" by Kevin Lozano, pitchfork.com. November 18, 2016.

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• I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Wine, Night, Two

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• I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

  Alan Autry

  Order, Goal, Support

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

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• Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

  Althea Gibson

  Queens, Hands, Long

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• I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Opportunity, Spend Time, Relish

  "Did Zooey Deschanel Diss Downtown LA?" by Eliza Fisher, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2011.

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• San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

  Gavin Newsom

  Home, Cities, San Francisco

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• Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Years, Batteries, Uptown

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• I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

  Nelly Furtado

  Thinking, Years, Self

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• There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

  Peter DeFazio

  California Coast, Oregon, White

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• But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

  Laura Miller

  Beautiful, Strong, Children

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