"The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.50, Vintage

Jane Jacobs

#Cities Quotes #Ballet Quotes #Improvisation Quotes

“Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
“I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.”
“I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.”
“I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.”
“I am the luckiest man in the world.”
“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”
“I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed - but there is still the building. I was looking for something between an experiment and an extended ritual. I asked 15 actors to be in this museum and take the position of the museum's personnel. I put this small group under certain conditions and influences, interpreted by another group of actors or by real professional performers, like a magician, a psychic, a model, a hypnotist, a singer, a psycho-dramaturge.”
“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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