Metro Quotes

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  Ed Koch

  Age, Twelve, Born

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• In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

  Marie Windsor

  Hypnosis, Radio, Wells

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• Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

  Gloria Trevi

  Country, Yale, Oxford

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• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  Otto Schily

  Paris, Community, Members

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• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Doors, Decision, Secret

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• Metro shows no signs of being able to make its trains run on time. This occurs during single-tracking and it occurs during normal rush hour service.

  Robert James Thomson

  Running, Able, Normal

  "Dr. Gridlock". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 8, 2016.

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• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  Simeon Strunsky

  People, Democracy, Library

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• As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Gay, Gang Members, San Francisco

  "'Marcos is Gay'". www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.

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• If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Morning, Men, Mirrors

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• Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.

  Ricky Gervais

  Weekend, Night, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 21, 2004.

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• Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.

  Laura Harrington

  New York, Believe, Islands

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Mother, Believe, Holiday

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

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• The pictures I have been sent that display my father in places around the world such as the metro in Barcelona or downtown Los Angeles, I cannot understand the amount of publicity that has been given to my father in addition to the message that is spread because of this.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Around The World, Publicity

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I want to talk about things that are quantifiable, not a bunch of metro riders and crowd sizes.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Crowds, Want, Size

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or kind actions throughout the week. It brings me such happiness reading it and makes me know that, ultimately, human beings are amazing.

  Rosie Fellner

  Reading, Writing, People

  "Rosie Fellner: Celebrating Kindness and Differences". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• SafeTrack - I keep saying this - is not going to fix Metro. It's a speeded up track work program, compressing three years of already planned work on the track bed into about a year.

  Robert James Thomson

  Years, Track, Bed

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• If the Metro general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, says those extra hours for maintenance are necessary to help fix the system and make it safer, then that gets top priority.

  Robert James Thomson

  Priorities, Maintenance, Helping

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I think that maps showing platform details would be useful to visitors, especially to chaperones of school groups, etc. Also useful would be either a compass rose or an arrow pointing North at every metro exit. Emerging from underground is disorienting, especially at night.

  Robert James Thomson

  School, Night, Thinking

  "Dr. Gridlock" with Robert Thomson, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.

  Robert James Thomson

  Tears, Gone, Down And

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

  Robert James Thomson

  World, Century, Late

  "Dr. Gridlock". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.

  Andy Barrie

  Morning, Thinking, People

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• Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor of the double nickel [the 55 mph National Speed Limit]...This is the same Jimmy Carter whose limosine with him in it, just a little later in his presidency, was timed at an average of 72 mph for the 21.5 mile trip from Detroit Metro to the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He didn't want to be late for a campaign appearance.

  Patrick Bedard

  Country, America, Mph

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• Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

  Kid Rock

  Careers, Michigan, Done

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2017

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• I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Hate, People, Listening

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

  Ava Gardner

  Kids, Looks, Actresses

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