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We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.
Henry Louis Gates

Work, Problems, Here

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Benjamin Carson

Life, Person, Find

Nature is a petrified magic city.
Novalis

Nature, Magic, Petrified

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
George Ade

Country, Popular, Traffic

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
Michael Bloomberg

Time, Greatest, Place

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
Michael Bloomberg

Best, Special, Said

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
Cate Blanchett

Mind, Try, Often

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
David Cameron

Great, History, Future

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
John Podhoretz

Washington, Atmosphere, Attracted

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
Billy Sunday

Before, Getting, Nobody

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
Doris Lessing

Time, Everything

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
Doris Lessing

Thought, Possible, London

I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.
Herman Cain

Might, Bank, Elected

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
Steven Tyler

Angry, Fight, Guitar

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
Loretta Lynn

Try, Talking, Mess

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
Toni Morrison

Education, Nothing, Black

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
Michael Bloomberg

America, High, Crime

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
Michael Bloomberg

Here, Tonight, Streets

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg

Dreams, War, Freedom

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg

Dreams, War, Freedom

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
Michael Bloomberg

Health, Care, Cannot

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
Michael Bloomberg

Life, Respect, May

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.
Michael Bloomberg

Done, State, Whether

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.
Michael Bloomberg

End, Blame, State

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!
Michael Bloomberg

Change, Hard, Trying

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Cleveland Abbe

Life, Great, Ignorance

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
Barbara Corcoran

Big, Earth, York

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.
Tony Campolo

Down, Problem, Become

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
Tony Campolo

Work, Special, Poor

Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Great, Everything, Fair

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