"Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.343, Random House

Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Littles Quotes #Energy Quotes

“It's important to pull tons of pieces! If you have lots of options to choose from, you can play around and see that things that you wouldn't originally have expected to work together actually do! That applies to both clothing and decorating.”

Source : Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com
“The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.”
“I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.”
“Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.”
“I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.”
“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”

Source : "BC Report Newsmagazine", January 11, 1999.
“I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.”
“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”

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