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Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.
Sloane Crosley

Living, Mothers, Seems

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.
Dick Cheney

Real, Idea, Face

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.
John Boehner

Both, Soldiers, Deserve

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.
Allen West

Country, Service, While

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.
Lou Reed

Show, Beer, Goes

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Joseph Brodsky

Beauty, Everything, King

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
Harry Browne

Life, Work, Time

I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there.
Mia Wasikowska

Love, Best, Times

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
Tim Robbins

Government, Idiot, Action

I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
Idris Elba

Government, America, Rich

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
David Letterman

Great, Around, Move

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
Ville Valo

Time, Before, Big

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
Ian Mcewan

Politics, Pretty, Energy

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Jeremy Taylor

Marriage, Mother, Heaven

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven

Beautiful, Heart, Greatest

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.
Richard Russo

Small, Destiny, Share

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
Steve Yzerman

History, Few, Red

Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.
Mark Zandi

Great, Country, Between

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Philo

Happiness, Good, Great

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.
Ai Weiwei

Today, Through, Against

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Aristophanes

Men, War, Friends

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
Italo Calvino

End, Until, Born

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.
Yani Tseng

Life, Time, Business

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
Yani Tseng

Experience, Happy, Different

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Lie, Taken, Land

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Stephen Gardiner

Poor, Public, Spite

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
Tadao Ando

Beautiful, Working, Actually

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.
Kevin Rudd

Alone, Put, Grow

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
Al Sharpton

Country, Around, Group

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.
Nia Vardalos

Children, November, Adopted

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