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The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.

~David Hepworth

Topics: City David Dramatic Moment Most Once Opening Radio Royal Solo Still Year

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'Intrigue: Murder In The Lucky Holiday Hotel' is a podcast put together by the BBC's Carrie Gracie that investigates the story behind the death of British businessman Neil Heywood in the Chinese city of Chongqing in 2011.

~David Hepworth

Topics: Behind British Businessman Carrie Chinese City Death Holiday Hotel Intrigue Lucky Neil Put Story Together Bbc

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Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.

~David Hewson

Topics: Also Amsterdam City First Historic May Monuments Most Old Part See Station Turn Up You

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The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.

~David Hewson

Topics: Bars Behind Bronze City Clue Doors Dwarf First Give Hotels Jail Old Ordinary Out Outside Over Place Pubs Snoring The Doors You

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My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

~David Lee

Topics: Born Brought Children City Come Electrical Elementary Elementary School Engineer England Father Had Immigrants Jewish Late Mother New New York New York City Parents School School Teacher States Teacher Trained United United States Up Were Who York

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In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

~David Lee Roth

Topics: Below Bohemian City Cowboy Cowboy Hat Down Hat Join Left-Wing Neighborhood New New York New York City Put States Street United United States York You

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In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: City Come Course Down Expect Frank Gold Immigrants Jersey Only Oz Paved Streets Were Wizard Wizard Of Oz

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I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.

~David Lichtenstein

Topics: Big Big City City Horse Only Rather Than Third Town Would

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Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: City Edinburgh Fairytale Gothic Horror Sort Well

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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

~David Mamet

Topics: Adventure Another Church City Country Determined Diversity Family Healthy Indeed Leisure Makes May More Name Need One-Size-Fits-All Person Security Size Slavery State Want Work

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