"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."

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Source : "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

Jaime Lerner

#Jobs Quotes #Years Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Pop art is for everyone.”
“I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.”
“Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.”
“Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]”
“I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.”
“It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.”
“Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe”

Source : Vocal warmup, Guitar World, October 1990.
“You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.72, Penguin

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