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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Cities Quotes

HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Country Quotes , Cities Quotes

...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.

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Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

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The people are the city.

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I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

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When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cities Quotes , Community Quotes

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Cities Quotes

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Fog Quotes , Cities Quotes

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

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Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Party Quotes , Cities Quotes

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

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My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Cities Quotes , Sake Quotes

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Cities Quotes , People Quotes

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

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