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I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6. — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
I love this city, so good to find shops on the same street. Unlike when I was living in Los Angeles you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be… — Jonny Weston Copy Share Image
“In compulsively keeping myself out of view, I was participating, without realizing it, in a rich New York tradition. Loners and shut-ins… — Jon-Jon Goulian Copy Share Image
I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years… — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image
My sisters and I live and breathe the Valley. In the '80s, it got a really bad rap, with Valley girls and… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There are challenges as far as underfunding in various parts of the city. But spirit and sense of community is so much… — Harvey Levin Copy Share Image
People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too. — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us. — Marvin Davis Copy Share Image
When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something. — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
San Francisco is like, the most expensive city to live in, in the United States. — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great. — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view. — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
