Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown."
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Downtown
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John Lewis
Politician
"Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and the blood is still on the driveway. They cannot wash it away."
Harrison Salisbury
Journalist
"The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning."
J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible."
Neil Young
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to."
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"A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime."
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"I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim."
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"If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology."
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"I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series."
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"L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between."
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"First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library."
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