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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

~Abbas Kiarostami

Topics: Also Cities Countryside Films Made More Prefer Rural Societies Than Towns True Villages

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When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.

~Abby Wambach

Topics: Always Between Cities Countries Exciting Flashy Had New Person Player Separation Shiny Stuff Traveling Visiting Who You Younger

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Amazon is pursuing something called Amazon Key, which lets its couriers unlock Prime customers' doors and deliver packages. It's pairing the service, which it plans to make available in 37 cities next month, with a camera so users will have intelligence inside and outside their homes, presumably boosting trust and lowering creepiness.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Amazon Available Camera Cities Customers Deliver Doors Homes Inside Intelligence Key Lets Lowering Make Month Next Outside Packages Plans Presumably Prime Pursuing Service Something Trust Unlock Users Which Will

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I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

~Adelaide Clemens

Topics: Cities Gets Go Love Month Need New Skin Somewhere Starts Travelled I Love

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I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

~Adriano Giannini

Topics: Anymore Appeal Aside Cities Get House Like Me New New York Would York

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Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: After Alexander Been Cities City Death Democracy Evolved Founded Great Greeks Had Hercules Hybrid Indigenous Indigenous People Like Many Monarchy People Prosperous Son Western Who

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When we moved to Europe when I was a teenager, I really did not want to go. I was happy in my school, with my friends, but looking back on it, it was the best experience I've ever had. We traveled every weekend. I experienced incredible new cultures, museums, cities, and it really opened up my eyes.

~Aerin Lauder

Topics: Back Best Cities Cultures Did Europe Ever Every Experience Experienced Eyes Friends Go Had Happy Incredible Looking Looking Back Moved Museums New Opened Really School Teenager Traveled Up Want Weekend

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The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

~Ai Weiwei

Topics: Against Ancient Apparent Aspect Athletics Cities Commercial Compete Competition Corporations Each Financial Follow Gain Games Highly How Most Olympic Olympic Games Other Seen Sport Through Today Traditions

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Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: About Ambitious Baltimore Big Both Cities First First Time Folk Had Manchester Queer Scope Stories Telling Time Two Were Wire

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I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.

~Aja Brown

Topics: About Cities Forward Great Know Move Relationships Rhetoric Speaking Takes

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