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I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life. -- Beverly Cleary
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In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players. -- Janet Echelman
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port. -- Rosa Luxemburg
I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city. -- Dani Shapiro
Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer. -- Nydia Velazquez
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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. -- Tom Ford
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. -- Laura Marling
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. -- Mason Cooley
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. -- Raymond Williams
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. -- Stephen King
You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life. -- Lee Iacocca
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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