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As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions. -- Robert Hormats
We're a superpower with a Third World grid. -- Bill Richardson
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. -- Chuck Close
You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. -- Shai Agassi
A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed. -- Massimo Vignelli
Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. -- Ron Perlman
Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse. -- Robert A. M. Stern
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. -- Stephen Gardiner
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. -- Bill Vaughan
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively. -- Ellen Lupton
And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid. -- John W. Snow
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. -- Wim Crouwel
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation. -- Roland Barthes
We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. -- Paul Gillmor
I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles. -- Hillary Clinton
Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. -- Harold H. Greene
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge. -- Annie Dillard
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts. -- Richard Burr
My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid. -- Jenson Button
Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power. -- Lauren DeStefano
The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropiate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice. -- Josef Muller-Brockmann
But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own. -- Vincent Kartheiser
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth. -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau
... nets, grids, and other types of calculus. -- Alan Watts
Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids. -- Robert Barry
The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor. -- Jack Welch
I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids. -- Khoi Vinh
We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines. -- Ban Ki-moon
No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique. -- Max Lucado
This is the language of the world beforeâ??a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despairâ??before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust. -- Lauren Oliver
A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide. -- Bret Easton Ellis

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