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We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. -- Ken Jennings
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city. -- Alexei Sayle
I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs. -- Patti Stanger
Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city. -- Randy Bachman
Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city. -- Sarah Hall
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside. -- Gregory David Roberts
When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus. -- Luis Suarez
When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object. -- John Gates
I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him. -- James S. Coleman
When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play. -- Nacho Figueras
Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country. -- Kate Grenville
I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked. -- Mark Roberts
I remember my first night in L.A. I was sitting outside, looking out at the city and thinking, 'I don't know anyone.' I just approached it as a big adventure. I still think of it that way. -- Luke Bracey
Every sandwich I sold, the city got more sales tax, the state got more. But they came in and they would want to give me a ticket because I have a sign outside trying to get more business, right? -- Kevin McCarthy
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. -- Edwidge Danticat
The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail. -- David Hewson
Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted. -- Vera Wang
In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you. -- Benedict Wong
Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn't the right fit. I couldn't escape and be in the woods in 10 minutes if I needed to. I like that in Eau Claire, I can walk to a bar or a coffee shop, and there's city-ish things, but I can also drive and in eight minutes be at my parents' land outside of town. -- Justin Vernon
Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. -- Fred Allen
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference. -- Jane Byrne
I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town. -- Chelsea Cain
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. -- John Kennedy Toole
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time. -- Brandi Carlile
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City. -- Karolyn Grimes
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower. -- Ed Westwick
When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno. -- Pedro Winter
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city. -- Laozi
I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots. -- Feist

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