"I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere."
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"Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation."
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"I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks."
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"I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world."
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"Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities."
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"Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured."
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"You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper."
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"You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle."
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"Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes."
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"Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette."
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"And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much."
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"Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston."
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"Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in."
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"Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city."
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"What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin."
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"I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those."
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"Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun."
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"But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die"
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"No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment."
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"To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it."
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