2,405 Quotes About Cities


  • Author Agathe Snow
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    When I get back into the city, it doesn't matter where you plop me down, I have my friends around me and I feel so blessed. I think we all just love to be together and there are just not enough reasons to be together.

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  • Author Agathe Snow
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    I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.

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  • Author Ahmed Rashid
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    The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities.

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  • Author Ai Weiwei
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    I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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  • Author Ai Weiwei
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    I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

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  • Author Ai Weiwei
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    New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

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  • Author Ai Weiwei
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    In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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