Best Urban Wisdom
344 Urban quotes by 296 unique authors
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Hey I think the urban meyer rule is in effect right now, When the going gets tough..QUIT.
— Maurice Jones-Drew
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Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is…
— Jan Gehl
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Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar,…
— Hayden Carruth
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I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
— Chaske Spencer
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What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and…
— Mary C. Neal
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I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community…
— Charles Rangel
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I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old…
— Jamie Bell
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Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the…
— Arthur Koestler
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If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through…
— Salman Rushdie
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I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I…
— Stan Lee
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If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
— Will Rogers
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Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
— Wendell Berry
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Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
— Jamais Cascio
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The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
— Betty Smith
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In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and…
— Thomas Frank
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
— Carlos Ghosn
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Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
— Robin Gibb
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'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of…
— Phil Collins
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Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia.…
— Sloane Crosley
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Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment,…
— Arthur Erickson
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There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.
— Hunter Hayes
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I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble,…
— Hunter Hayes
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My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require…
— Robin Hayes
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it.…
— Jesse Jackson
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