Best Urban Qoutes
344 Urban quotes by 296 unique authors
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The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living…
— Stewart Udall
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We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of…
— Gabrielle Union
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When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
— Vivienne Westwood
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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of…
— A. N. Wilson
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Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
— Ron Wyden
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All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.
— Vir Das
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I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban…
— Geoff Mulgan
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Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and…
— Edward Abbey
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The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than…
— Rebecca Solnit
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It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban…
— Grant Morrison
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So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with…
— Jon Stewart
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Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose…
— Kiran Desai
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
— Charles Lamb
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We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless…
— Hilaire Belloc
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The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a…
— Susan Sontag
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Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.
— Kelley Armstrong
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Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which…
— Susan Sontag
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I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.
— John Green
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Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.
— Mira Grant
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Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family has no idea…
— Sophie Kinsella
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