"In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and experience directly through our senses. Public life in good quality public spaces is an important part of a democratic life and a full life."

-- Jan Gehl

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“My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'”
“One can say, 'Teach me what you know,' but the better request is, 'Teach me about what teaches you.'”
“If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.”
“Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.”
“I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby's story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.”
“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.”
“Im open-minded. I dont consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. Ive had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.”
“I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.”

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