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The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama… — Thomas Frank
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people… — Lady Gaga
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. — John Kenneth Galbraith
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city,… — Richard Le Gallienne
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea… — Jerry Garcia
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear… — Hamlin Garland
Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film. — Janeane Garofalo
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. — Bill Gates
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. — Bill Gates
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco… — Henry Louis Gates
We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in… — Henry Louis Gates
When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and… — Henry Louis Gates
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. — Henry Louis Gates
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do… — Frank Gehry
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think… — Frank Gehry
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. — Frank Gehry
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. — Frank Gehry
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… — William Gibson
When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're… — Rudy Giuliani
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city,… — Andy Goldsworthy
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels… — Matt Gonzalez
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city. — Alison Gopnik
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st… — Antony Gormley
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it. — Stone Gossard
Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain… — Ellie Goulding

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