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Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
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In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once,… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt… — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don't want to be sued by the justice department, as if… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
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