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“I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.”
Source : "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008. 
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“I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.”
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“What you're born with dictates your life. Do you run home after dark? Do you choose an apartment in a questionable neighborhood? I dated a guy a few years ago in California, actually who was, as we say in England, "built like a brick shithouse." He was a lovely guy, but I thought, his arms are as big as my head, he could kill me. I don't think that men would predict the kinds of things that women think about when you are contemplating having a relationship.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”
Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Tantalize”, p.29, Candlewick Press
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“I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.”
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“The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.”
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“You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?”
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“DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.”
