I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It's like 45 minutes outside of Houston. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
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When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
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Chicago is a great city and I love coming back each and every time and thinking about all the great memories I… — Andrei Arlovski Copy Share Image
Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times. — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a… — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
I'm a huge sun baby. As soon as the sun comes out, my smile gets bigger, so I'm constantly smiling in L.A.… — Ricky Whittle Copy Share Image
I've always seen L.A. as a giant kind of laboratory for ideas in a caldron for concepts where you can try anything… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I grew up in a quiet suburb in South Texas, and loved the in-your-faceness of the East Village. In the early days,… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
New York thrives because of the hardworking men and women who labor each and every day. They deserve their fair share and… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Ithaca is sort of a populated and diverse area. There's a wide spectrum of people living there. In that sense, it was… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know? — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
Growing up where I grew up in Queens, you have the United Nations all around you. — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York. — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
I grew up in southeast London and there's a lot of brutalist architecture. — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people. — Timothy Weah Copy Share Image
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