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In big cities, things go by too fast.
Eric Bledsoe
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Big Cities
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
Otto Penzler
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Editor
Big Cities
Cities
Evoke
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I don't like Paris or being in big cities.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Film Director
Big Cities
Cities
Paris
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I'm trying to express nature in big cities.
Ma Yansong
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Big Cities
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I'm more on the country side than big cities.
Marc Gasol
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Big Cities
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My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.
Steve Earle
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Singer-Songwriter
Big Cities
Cities
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
Laura Moser
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Big Cities
Cities
Hallmark
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in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.
Vicki Baum
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Writer
Big Cities
Cities
Solitude
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Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
Lennart Meri
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Writer
Big Cities
Bigs
Chains
Cities
Liberate
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I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
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Athens
Big Cities
Cities
Living
Smaller
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Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.
Rose George
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Journalist
Big Cities
Cities
Sewage
Around
Works
Run
Grow Up
Serve
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Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
Juan Williams
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Journalist
Big Cities
Cities
Gun
Violence
Among
Blacks
Concentrated
Latinos
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
Salman Rushdie
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Novelist
Big Cities
Boys
Cities
Writing
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Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places.
Robert Lepage
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Big Cities
Frustrating
Drawn
Smaller
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I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.
Chloe Zhao
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Big Cities
Cities
Felt
Grew
Late
Looking
Something Else
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Veterans come from all walks of life, and they live in small towns and big cities, in red states and blue states.
John Delaney
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Big Cities
Blue
Cities
Red
Towns
Walks
Small Towns
Veterans
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Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
Toyo Ito
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Architect
Big Cities
Cities
Isolated
People
World
World People Live
World Live People
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What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities.
Wendy Long
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Big Cities
Cities
Democrat
Helping
Liberal
Policies
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Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
Charlaine Harris
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Author
Big Cities
Cities
Modern World
Blending
Feature
Supernatural
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I'm a family man now. I don't need no distractions; I don't need no big cities, no big lights, at this point in my career.
Paul George
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Basketball Player
Big Cities
Family Man
Distractions
Lights
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I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.
Sondra Radvanovsky
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Acres
Big Cities
Cities
Opera
Perform
Forest
Houses
Recover
Renew
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I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
Ville Valo
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Singer-Songwriter
Big Cities
Cities
Europe
First Time
Firsts
Time See Never
Time First Time See
Travelled
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I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that.
Bryan Greenberg
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Actor
Big Cities
Cities
People See Someone
People See Who
Freaked
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We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.
John Hench
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Designer
Big Cities
Cities
Color
Feelings
Harmonious
Instance
Achieved
Colors
Park
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I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.
John Lee Hooker
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Singer-Songwriter
Big Cities
Bright Lights
Cities
Detroit
Light
Taste
Bright
Cincinnati
Lights
Stayed
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In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.
Rebecca Mackinnon
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Blogger
Big Cities
China
Cities
Consumers
Gamble
Goods
Instance
Products
Widely
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Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.
Antony Gormley
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Sculptor
Big Cities
Brilliant
Cities
Glasgow
Rivers
Hidden
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I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.
Iain Banks
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Author
Big Cities
Cities
Dip
Fans
Scotland
Huge Fan
To Be Honest
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I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.
Lee Smith
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Big Cities
Cities
Depends
Towns
Time People Living
Time Living People
Small Towns
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Because SBI is so large, serving customers in India's big cities and small rural villages alike, it has a pressing need for better tools and technology to monitor lending risks.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Big Cities
Cities
Customers
Lending
Serving
Tools
Alike
Monitor
Pressing
Rural
Villages
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
Pankaj Mishra
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Essayist
Big Cities
Cities
Delhi
Leaving
Village
Comforts
Seek
Passed
Poorly
Visits
Witnessed
Young Men
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I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.
Mark Rutte
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Prime Minister Of The Netherlands
Big Cities
Cities
Disneyland
Safe
Early
Walk
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Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.
John Hench
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Designer
Big Cities
Chaos
Cities
Conflict
Contradiction
Humans
Lasts
Parks
Visual
Ancestors
Eliminated
Park
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The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.
Meghan Daum
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Author
Big Cities
Cities
Defining
Irony
Tiny
Charged
Entire
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Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you're out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to.
Howie Mandel
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Comedian
Big Cities
Canada
Cities
Grounded
Towns
Me People Big
Me People Small
Respond
Small Towns
Standup
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The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.
Bill Alexander
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Barcelona
Big Cities
Cities
Heroic
Madrid
Military
News
Republic
Resistance
Wish
Open
Fired
Help
Widespread
Mussolini
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
Yann Martel
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Author
Anonymity
Big Cities
Cities
Museums
Restaurants
Suspects
Thrilling
Tiresome
Usual
Array
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The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.
Ma Yansong
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Big Cities
Cities
Concealed
Difficulty
Emptiness
Humanity
Loss
Spiritual
Within
Buildings
Lie
Lead
Per
Rather
Sense
Skyscrapers
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Dysfunction in Washington has stalled any meaningful federal action on gun control. So it's increasingly up to big cities like New York to take bold steps to get weapons off our streets and change the national discourse.
Letitia James
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Big Cities
Discourse
Dysfunction
Gun
Gun Control
Meaningful
Steps
Streets
Weapons
Bold
Increasingly
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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
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Author
Australia
Big Cities
Cities
Coastal
Contradiction
Fringe
Nearly
Foreign Country
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
Eddi Reader
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Singer
Annoyed
Big Cities
Cities
Music Business
Business Music People
Business Music Live
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Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.
Susan Orlean
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Journalist
Big Cities
Cities
Election
Election Day
Hands
Race
Vote
Day People Election
Count
Each Individual
Few People
Day Election People
Local
Races
Several
Votes
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I'm a country girl. The more big cities I go to, the more fashionistas and designers I meet who want to dress me, the more I have all these kind of superficial but amazing experiences, the more I just realize that I'm from Gloucestershire.
Fka Twigs
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Singer-Songwriter
Big Cities
Cities
Superficial
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The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox.
Elfriede Jelinek
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Playwright
Big Cities
Chickens
Cities
Discussions
Vast
Intellectuals
Fox
Hide
More People
Smaller
Universities
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For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
Pankaj Mishra
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Essayist
Big Cities
Cities
Departure
Indian
Promise
Railway
Soviet
Soviet Union
Towns
Alone World Me
Apart
Appeared
Arrival
Dusty
Escape
Trains
Union
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I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the '40s - and actually, I was born in '37, so I was a kid singing on the radio in the '40s. But I always dreamed of going to big cities.
Charlie Haden
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Musician
Big Cities
Cities
Dreamed
Parker
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In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.
Thomas Frank
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Journalist
Bars
Big Cities
Bored
Cities
Denied
Eye
Festivals
Hipster
Pining
Teenager
Towns
Urban
Everyone Else
Eyes
Small
Small Towns
Teenagers
Vibrant
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Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.
Ro Khanna
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Application
Big Cities
Innovation
Maintenance
Software
Work Business Done
Advanced
Concerning
Processes
Remotely
Research Universities
Systems
Universities
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It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
Tony Abbott
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Prime Minister Of Australia
Aboriginal
Big Cities
Cities
Looks
Noble
Australians
Chronically
Dysfunctional
Innocents
Prism
Suspect
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Boys have always known they could do anything; all they had to do was look around at their presidents, religious leaders, professional athletes, at the statues that stand erect in big cities and small. Girls have always known they were allowed to feel anything - except anger.
Faith Salie
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Anger
Big Cities
Cities
Religious Leaders
Statues
Always Look Feel
Athletes
Erect
Presidents
Professional Athletes
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