Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

I think, probably, socially, in some ways New York may be the least American city. It represents too many things that Americans really don't entirely want in their lives.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.

My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

People tend to migrate from the third world to the metropolises of the very countries that once dominated them. Algerians to Paris; Puerto Ricans to New York; Pakistanis to London.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.

Industrialization, by drawing people from the countryside to the cities brings with it the weakening of traditional political and social support systems.

Farmers who left the countryside for China’s cities and factory towns starting in the late 1980s now have children who dream of earning college degrees and landing white collar jobs.