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People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
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Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the…
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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete…
— Jane Jacobs
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Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination…
— August Strindberg
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In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements…
— Evan Parker
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were…
— Paul Harding
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I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to…
— Eugene Levy
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You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate…
— Mike Leigh
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What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.
— Dave Brubeck
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Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really…
— John Cale
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