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Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. -- Dave Reichert
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell. -- Carole Katchen
I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. -- Cam Newton
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body. -- Rebecca Solnit
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd. -- Grant Morrison
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life. -- William Atherton
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. -- Armand Assante
My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies. -- John Boyega
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. -- Virginia Postrel
I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life. -- Rirkrit Tiravanija
I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life. -- Erik Hersman
A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life. -- Richard Rogers
We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage. -- Adolph Green
Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature. -- Yves Behar
I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.' Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was. -- Per Petterson
I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot. -- Saul Perlmutter
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. -- Alan Dundes
Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. -- Cam Newton
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life. -- Keith Urban
I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think. -- Keith Urban
Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had. -- Keith Urban
A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for. -- Keith Urban
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. -- Keith Urban
I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life. -- Andrew Cuomo
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker -- Armand Assante
I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible. -- Zoe Saldana
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. -- Charles Lamb
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities -- Chuck Grassley

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