"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."

-- Jane Jacobs

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“I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.”
“One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.”

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“There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.”
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
“I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.”
“We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.”
“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.”
“Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.”

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