"There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time."

-- Jane Jacobs

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“If a guy doesn't like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.”
“'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.”
“In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation. I had to ... find a way to present my point of view without being pushy or aggressive. In the old days, the only women I saw in this business were in makeup, hairdressing, and wardrobe departments. Now I'm surrounded by women executives, writers, directors, producers, and even women stagehands.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.”

Source : "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.
“If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.”
“How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.70, Open Road Media
“The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.”
“Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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