"Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population."

-- Carlo Ratti

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“Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.”
“The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.”
“It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.”
“Istanbul and the western and southern seaboards are very Europeanized. But then you have the Kurdish areas, in the southeast. That's Turkey's Middle East, where you have a different society, which itself is changing but much more slowly, where women are maltreated, are expected to have huge families, and are often basically beasts of burden. That is changing - with education, with the movement of people from the southeast to the west and the cities. As with so much in Turkey, you can't expect change to happen overnight.”

Source : "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.
“God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!”
“I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.”
“Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?”
“I want to do things that will change someone's life, not something they'll forget about tomorrow.”

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