Urban Quotes - Page 18

• I wonder, What is it to be human? Especially now that we are so urban. How do we remember our connection with place? What is the umbilical cord that roots us to that primal, instinctive, erotic place? Every time I walk to the edge of this continent and feel the sand beneath my feet, feel the seafoam move up my body, I think, "Ah, yes, evolution." It's there, we just forget.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Moving, Thinking, Roots

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

  Ben Nelson

  Fire, Water, Decision

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• When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation — would jump at the chance to teach in urban and rural communities, their concerns, too, went unheard. My very greatest asset was that I simply did not understand what was impossible.

  Wendy Kopp

  School, Community, Generations

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• In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.

  Dan Carter

  Powerful, War, Book

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• We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

  Moshe Safdie

  Architecture, Worthy, Civilisation

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• Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

  Russell Simmons

  Uplifting, Dream, Opportunity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

  Kathy Acker

  Airplane, Past, Night

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.112, Grove Press

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• I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

  Jenni Olson

  Reflection, Years, San Francisco

  "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

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• I have always been interested in crafting films that use long, static urban landscape shots as a way of manipulating the emotions of the viewer and forcing them to slow down, which I think simultaneously makes them more vulnerable as spectators, and also puts them in a position of being more than just spectators.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Long, Use

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• [Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, Opportunity, Survival

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• The drugs are just growing all around the country, and so, it all feeds into problems that are not just urban, but are just spread throughout the country.

  David Brooks

  Country, Drug, Growing

  "Shields and Brooks on the flagging labor force, foreign policy fights". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. May 2, 2014.

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• By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

  Socrates

  Cities, Community, Planning

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• When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Urban Renewal, Doctors

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• I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word 'urban' but - when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who's launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

  Kevin Hart

  Hate, Thinking, Ice

  "Kevin Hart Talks RIDE ALONG, Moving to the New Phase in His Career, Comparisons to other Buddy Cop Action Comedies, and More". Interview on the set, collider.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I have the greatest appreciation for [producers] Matt Alvarez and Ice Cube. They put me in Friday after Next, and now this, which I hope is just the start of a long, wonderful relationship. I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business. Those are my roots. I'll always love doing those.

  Terry Crews

  Friday, Appreciation, Fun

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I am very determined when it comes to my music, and I grew up just loving those singers who had that urban sort of feeling. So when it came down to making my record, I wanted to have that as well. ForeFront was really good about letting me go in that direction and then of course adding the more pop sounds. I feel very fortunate that I got to explore some unique and creative angles musically.

  Stacie Orrico

  Unique, Creative, Feelings

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

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• It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.

  David W. Orr

  Children, School, Adults

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• So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans.

  Don Kardong

  Cities, Advice, Pathways

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• I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say I like this one song more or I like that one more. I love every song on the album. What's happening is that I'm hoping that everyone will be very satisfied. I think the single "Good Girl" will be adored by the people in the urban world and I think the "Best of Me" will be loved by people in the pop world.

  Chrisette Michele

  Girl, Song, Children

  "Chrisette Michele: Unifying Music". Singersroom Interview, singersroom.com. June 18, 2007.

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• This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cities, Space, People

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• If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.

  Clinton Smith

  New York, Cities, Rose

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

  Helmut Jahn

  Building, Minors, Majors

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• Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

  Allan Jacobs

  Community, Comfort, Structure

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• I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

  Helmut Jahn

  Creativity, Space, Office

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• Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success.

  Nathan Winograd

  Animal, Community, Shelter

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