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I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

~Estelle Morris

Topics: City Comprehensive Inner Inner City Schools Taught Years

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New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: American Been Big Big Time City Ever Miles New New York Only Other Philadelphia Time York

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You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.

~Eva Longoria

Topics: City Day Husband Relationship Same Shooting Thing Time Together You Your

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In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Advance City District Equality Idea Myth New New York New York City Schools York

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Part of me would love to be mayor for the simple reason that I love my city.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: City Love Mayor Me Part Reason Simple Would I Love

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I'm just a girl from Amsterdam. It's a small city. Everybody knows Amsterdam, but it's still a small city. To come from there, to work with Will. i. am... it's like, 'What happened?! What did I do right?'

~Eva Simons

Topics: Am Amsterdam City Come Did Everybody Girl Happened Just Knows Like Right Small Still Will Work I Am

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The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Brainy Cambridge City Cluster Hollywood Industries Knowledge Lawyers Like London Losing Means Near New Other People Regions Same So-Called Tend Think Top Up Want Who Winning Workers You

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By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Ambition Barriers Behind Beijing City Core Down Draw Gardens Great Great Wall Homes Intrigues Only Series Sunlight Tradition Wall Walls

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Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Became Beijing China City Flew Half Interested Me Once Spend Studying Stunned Year

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When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if you wanted to really treat yourself, you went to this place called the Jianguo Hotel. The architect had proudly described it as a perfect replica of a Holiday Inn that he had seen in Palo Alto, California.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Architect Beijing Burger California City Go Had He Holiday Horizontal Hotel Inn Lived Out Perfect Place Proudly Really Seen Treat Wanted You Yourself

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