"Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter."
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"I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for."
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"The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home."
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"If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses."
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"I love Calgary. It's a great city. I enjoyed my time there, quite a bit. Shooting and filming in that cold could be very difficult, at times. When you're shooting nights, and it's 3 in the morning and minus 35 degrees, that's hard to work in."
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"I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere."
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"There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem."
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"What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box."
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"The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone."
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"New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy."
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"To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy."
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"New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example."
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"Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama."
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"Los Angeles residents are going to vote on a tax on anything sold in a medical marijuana dispensary. If the measure passes the city could be solvent within 45 minutes."
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"In an interview, Kim Cattrall said there could be another 'Sex in the City' movie. An hour later, ISIS surrendered - there's only so much they can take."
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"Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles"
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"The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure."
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"The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity."
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"The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up."
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"there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone."
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