Urban Quotes - Page 12

• Canada can be tough for urban music.

  Melanie Fiona

  Urban Music, Canada, Tough

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• My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.

  Robin Hayes

  Two, Different, Rural Areas

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• In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and will no longer have names. Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy. The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared. New York is the final fling of this baroque verticality, this centrifugal excentricity, before the horizontal dismantling arrives, and the subterranean implosion that will follow.

  Jean Baudrillard

  New York, Crazy, Light

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• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

  Kenzo Tange

  Special, Development, Planning

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• Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

  Eileen Myles

  Sometimes, Scribes, Mass

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• Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Christian, Years, Humanity

  James Lovelock (2007). “The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

  Antoine Predock

  America, Venice, Energy

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• Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

  Ridley Scott

  Science, Two, Years

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

  Ed Rendell

  People, East, Division

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• In my opinion, if most urban meat-eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to se how the birds are raised, and could see the birds being "harvested" and then being "processed" in a poultry processing plant, they would not be impressed and some, perhaps many of them would swear off eating chicken and perhaps all meat.

  Peter Cheeke

  House, Bird, Environmental

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• We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

  Hannibal Buress

  Funny, Mean, Talking

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• Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Ideas, Dancing, Guests

  Sophie Kinsella (2007). “Shopaholic & Baby”, Random House LLC

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• We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, Urban Legends, Self

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1992.

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• She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.

  Ruth Ozeki

  New York, Drama, Struggle

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• The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance of the workers and the peasants, because these two classes comprise 80 to go per cent of China's population. These two classes are the main force in overthrowing imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries. The transition from New Democracy to socialism also depends mainly upon their alliance.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, Two, People

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers. The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home. It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Home, Skills

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• The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, Civilization, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.98, New World Library

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• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Technology, Media, Fiction

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure - like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

  Magic Johnson

  Business, Home, Color

  "Magic Johnson's New Book on Entrepreneurial Success". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Thinking, Years

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• What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.

  John P. Walters

  Commitment, Views, Law

  "Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups" Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient—people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled. Meanwhile the ghetto in the outside world is a prison as well, and a much more difficult one to escape from than this correctional compound. In fact, there is basically a revolving door between our urban and rural ghettos and the formal ghetto of our prison system.

  Piper Kerman

  Ghetto, Government, Doors

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• ...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

  Mira Grant

  Blood, Survival, Barbie

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• I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

  John Green

  Mean, Want, Not Sure

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.34, Penguin

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• Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her.

  Lil Wayne

  Hoe, Mets, These Hoes

  Song: She Bad

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