Urban Quotes - Page 20

• An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

  Jane Smiley

  Mind, Novelists, Decay

  "Our lady of east LA" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2007.

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• In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

  Jane Smiley

  Doctors, Self, Talking

  "Our lady of east LA" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2007.

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• Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

  David Suzuki

  Space, Needs, Landscape

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• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  Gabrielle Union

  Black, Definitions, Kind

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• When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Together, Rebel, Looks

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• In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

  A. N. Wilson

  Class, People, Water

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• Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Order, Evil

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• Many of the customers here are traveling all over the world so they need multiple types of clothes. That's one thing about Urban Zen - it is seasonless and it is timeless. So it's not about the fashion of a moment saying, "I have to have it now." It's something that you become a part of...sort of like a sari.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Clothes, Sari

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

  Geoff Lawton

  Numbers, Design, Lessons

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• Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and into the souls of our forgotten brothers. But Wrath James White hasn't forgotten about them--and after reading this book, neither will you.

  Brandon Massey

  Brother, Book, Reading

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• One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Ghetto, Artist, Come Up

  "The Stop Snitchin' Crisis; Did U.S. Military Choose Public Relations Over Truth in Tillman Death?; War of Words Over Iraq Funding Escalates". "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", April 24, 2007.

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• I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jewels, Cities, Trying

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.

  Dennis Lehane

  Pain, Ivy, Voice

  "Visitation Street". Book by Ivy Pochoda, 2013.

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• We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.

  Peter Calthorpe

  Moving, People, Tragedy

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• I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

  Justin Timberlake

  Inspiration, Urban Music, Effort

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• One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

  Marcel Pagnol

  Machines, Bombs, Watches

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• The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.

  Seumas Milne

  Air, Two, Silence

  " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.

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• [Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

  Collin Peterson

  Views, People, Different

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

  Dave Zirin

  Building, Stadiums, Policy

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• To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

  Minoru Mori

  Leadership, Strong, Ambition

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• Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

  Winston Churchill

  Sticks, Planning, Project Management

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• Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

  Peter Thiel

  Photography, Optimistic, Player

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.76, Crown Business

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• One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

  Frank Gehry

  Hero, Men, Design

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .

  David Bornstein

  Self, Agriculture, Abuse

  David Bornstein (2007). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition”, p.156, Oxford University Press

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• When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

  Frank Gehry

  School, Cities, Ideas

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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