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Urban Quotes

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Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.
George S. Patton

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2.
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker
Armand Assante

3.
Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.
Ken Salazar

4.
A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!
Richard Carson

5.
EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context
Kengo Kuma

6.
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
Rupert Brooke

7.
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
Michael Porter

8.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry

9.
Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her.
Lil Wayne

10.
Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.
Louis-Philippe I of France

11.
33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.
Donald Shoup

12.
This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
Richard Rogers

13.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Socrates

14.
Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.
Kenneth Frampton

15.
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.
T. S. Eliot

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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
FKA twigs

17.
In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.
Malidoma Patrice Some

18.
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt

19.
Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.
Winston Churchill

20.
Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
Allan Jacobs

21.
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.
Geoffrey Canada

22.
If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?
William J. Brennan

23.
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.
Eileen Myles

24.
Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball.
Wright Thompson

25.
I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.
Mary J. Blige

26.
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.
Julianne Malveaux

27.
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.
Susan Sontag

28.
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
Larry McMurtry

29.
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
Daniel Burnham

30.
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
Shane Claiborne

31.
I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.
Bill Mollison

32.
A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.
Tyrese Gibson

33.
I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.
Chloe Grace Moretz

34.
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
Walter Lippmann

35.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning
Kenzo Tange

36.
The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.
Dave Zirin

37.
Hey I think the Urban Meyer rule is in effect right now... When the going gets tough... QUIT.
Maurice Jones-Drew

38.
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
Moshe Safdie

39.
The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.
Patrick Dixon

40.
Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.
Michael Ignatieff

41.
I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.
Bethany Cosentino

42.
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
Fergus Henderson

43.
Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.
Greg Peterson

44.
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
Timothy Leary

45.
More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.
Ashley Judd

46.
I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But the Obamas have been amazing. You know, Michelle Obama, she planted that garden. She keeps bees there at the White House. Little known fact, though, is that Laura Bush also had an organic garden but she never told anyone about it.
Novella Carpenter

47.
Yes,ā€ Howie said solemnly. ā€œI can teach you how to be more ā€˜streetā€™ā€. ā€œFor God’s sakeā€¦ā€ ā€œOr is it ā€˜urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.
Barry Lyga

48.
All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.
Vir Das

49.
We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
Gabrielle Union

50.
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.
Steven Rattner