"L.A. is my American city."

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"London is the clearing-house of the world."

Joseph Chamberlain, British Politician

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"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

City, Chicago, Difference, Hell, Years

"Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"Edinburgh is alive with words."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

City, Word, Culture, Language

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."

Rupert Brooke, English Poet

City, Cats, Cities, Night, Will

"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

City, Chicago, Comfort

"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."

Jerry Rubin, American Activist

City, Theater

"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."

Jane Byrne, American Politician

City, Chicago, Cities, Contrast, Eyes

"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."

Cecil Beaton, English Photographer

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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."

Thomas Wolfe, American Novelist

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"From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important."

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"The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that."

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"There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny."

People

"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"

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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."

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"Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially."

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"As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded."

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"London is the clearing-house of the world."

"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."

"Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude."

"Edinburgh is alive with words."

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."

"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."

"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."

"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."

"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."

"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."

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"From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important."

"The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that."

"There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny."

"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"

"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."

"Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially."

"As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded."

"Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life."

"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."

"College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity."