Urban Life Quotes

• La violencia de las bandas en Estados Unidos no es un problema repentino. Forma parte de la vida urbana desde hace años, ofreciendo una definición e identidad agresivas a quienes buscan un lugar al que pertenecer en el caos de las grandes áreas metropolitanas.

  Dave Reichert

  Oferta, Años, América

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• Cualquier ciudad, por pequeña que sea, está de hecho dividida en dos: una es la ciudad de los pobres, la otra la de los ricos; éstas están en guerra entre sí.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Cities

  Plato (1977). "The Portable Plato", p.252, Penguin

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• Hay algo en la vida urbana: sales por la puerta y te encuentras con una corriente constante de vida a tu alrededor, y es muy fácil quedar atrapado en esa corriente y simplemente seguir adelante.

  Dani Shapiro

  Moving, Doors, Urban

  "Publicación de un libro: Devoción". Entrevista con Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. 7 de enero de 2010.

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• 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

  Smell, Survival, Age

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• They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

  Robert Crumb

  Depressing, Reality, People

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• 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

  Perception, Theatre, May

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• Soy una persona que cree en las diferentes emociones con la música. La música puede provocar diferentes vibraciones en el campo, fuera del campo, en la vida urbana, yendo a la iglesia, saliendo de la iglesia. Todo lo que el mundo puede traer, hay una canción para ello para ponerte en el estado de ánimo adecuado.

  Cam Newton

  Song, Believe, Leaving

  Fuente: www.vibe.com

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• I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

  Zoe Saldana

  Art, New York, Kids

  "'Star Trek Beyond' estrellas sobre 'conversaciones incómodas', la orientación sexual de Sulu y el futuro". Entrevista con Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. 21 th Of July de 2016.

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• We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

  David Byrne

  Mom, Urban Renewal, Community

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• 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

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• 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

  Style, Unbearable, Goes On

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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