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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too. -- Yannick Noah
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. -- Althea Gibson
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one. -- Paul Simon
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. -- Stefan Sagmeister
Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man. -- James Ellroy
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. -- Meg White
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown. -- Tony Hatch
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. -- Stephen Chbosky
Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. -- DJ Spooky
If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week. -- Richard Kadrey
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My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left. -- Bryan Batt
Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. and in that moment, I swear we were infinite. -- Stephen Chbosky
It's raining in Washington tonight. Plump, warm summer rain that covers the sidewalks with leopard spots. Downtown, elderly ladies carry their houseplants out to set them on the fire-escapes, as if they were infirm relatives or Boy Kings. I like that. -- Alan Moore
My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan. -- Peter T. King
I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. -- Vaginal Davis
My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan. -- Peter T. King
Well, I had a wolverine. It was supposed to be a cat, but Jason (Patric) is allergic to cats. I can't remember where I got it. Some back alley taxidermy, maybe? But I think I got it at The Bay taxidermy department. Downtown Winnipeg. Next to the tumbleweeds. -- Guy Maddin
There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories. -- Bobby Heenan
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown. -- Tony Hatch
I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life. -- Guy Lafleur
I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown. -- Alan Autry
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I. -- Johnny Ramistella
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers. -- ASAP Rocky
When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later. -- Eydie Gorme
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. -- James Van Der Beek
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan -- James Van Der Beek
I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series. -- Portia de Rossi
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening -- Gavin Newsom
I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. -- Jill Clayburgh
The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning. -- Harrison Salisbury
The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine. -- Noam Chomsky
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. -- Ed McMahon
I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church. -- Jeff Foxworthy
The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater. -- William Petersen
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination. -- Laura Miller
If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do. -- Jason Statham
Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965. -- Robert Rauschenberg
I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea. -- Tyler Farr
There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast. -- Peter DeFazio
From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven. -- Stella Young
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned. -- Michael Imperioli
I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one. -- Magic Johnson
I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for. -- Robin S. Sharma
I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club. -- David Dinkins
As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not part of the scene anymore. I'll always be interested in what's happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media. -- James St. James
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy. -- Susan Orlean
At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion? -- Robert Wilson
In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it. -- Annie Jacobsen
For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds. -- ASAP Rocky
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things. -- Andrew Weil
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. -- Annie Baker
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. -- Jo Nesbo
My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building. -- Denis Leary
And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along So maybe I'll see you there We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go Downtown, things'll be great when you're Downtown, don't wait a minute more Downtown, everything's waiting for you -- Petula Clark
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible. -- J. Cole
I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty that I recognize as a part of me, a part of all of us that celebrates life. It's my great pleasure to share with you that energy which inspires me; this great visual beauty of our world. -- Louis Schwartzberg
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me. -- Martin Scorsese
I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance. -- Thomas Reid
People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity. -- Jack White
You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there. -- Jane Jacobs
I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there. -- Zooey Deschanel
A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown. -- Dan Gilroy
Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown. -- Daniel Holloway
All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho. -- Joakim Noah
I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago. -- Nate Berkus
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table. -- Fab Five Freddy
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff. -- Bob Seger
I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it. -- Coolio
AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous. -- Blake Shelton
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. -- Charles Bukowski
I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown. -- Tamara Tunie
Never negotiate with terrorists, make bargains with mobsters, or drive downtown on game day. Some things are just a given. -- Genevieve
I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city. -- Greg LeMond
If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous -- Rick Riordan
My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough. -- Judy Greer
The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night. -- Rosalind Russell
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown. -- Nelly Furtado
My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up. -- Mike Pence
First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy. -- Bill Frisell
I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim. -- Muhammad Ali
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown. -- William Eggleston
It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order. -- David Byrne
The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams. -- Suzanne Fields
Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown. -- John Carlos Frey
bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex. -- Anne Sexton
Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off. -- Hal Sparks
He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion. -- Elton John
A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done. -- Alan Autry
Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York. -- Martin Scorsese
All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to. -- Neil Young
There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown. -- Michael Ritchie
It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things. -- Tanya Huff
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls. -- Bill Bryson
Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out. -- Al Roker
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving. -- Steven Wright
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening. -- Gavin Newsom
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers. -- Jason Epstein
After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway. -- Kel Mitchell
No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out. -- Kreesha Turner
I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school. -- Lou Reed
I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how much downtown Indianapolis has to offer. -- Andrew Luck
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity. -- Jane Jacobs
L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between. -- Dylan McDermott
What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style? -- Talib Kweli
The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central. -- Lenny Bruce
I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk. -- Ansel Elgort
Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm. -- Mona Simpson
Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek' article about the emerging downtown club scene, and, well, that was it for NYU. I was off and running. -- James St. James
On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew. -- Stephen King
A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime. -- Greg Smith
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