Cities Quotes

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In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing. — Assar Lindbeck
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements. — Mariella Frostrup
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had… — Kumi Naidoo
In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent… — Jay Smith
Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does. — Rick Kennedy
It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn. — Jay McShann
June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington… — Carl Bernstein
I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled… — Unknown Author
Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom. Celtic Tiger is… — Michael Flatley
I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world. — Gabriel Macht
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. — Anatoly Chubais
I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the… — Anatoly Chubais
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts,… — Alexander Trocchi
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. — Leon Askin
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where… — Ahmed Ben Bella
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they… — Atom Egoyan
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. — Richard Ernst
I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to… — Alain Vigneault
What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is… — Walter Karp
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew… — E. Haldeman-Julius

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