I'm in a New York state of mind
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago.
New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
L.A. is very big and very nice city.
You grow up as an artist in a big city. As James Dean said, you're going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don't accept people's sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless; I didn't have any money, and I was living in my car. I was 18.
I think of being the mayor of a big city with so many incredible things happening - but also so many challenges and opportunities - as really being kind of the chief advocate for the people.
Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
I'm anything but a small-town girl. I have big, big dreams, and I plan on making them happen.
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.
New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.
You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
I've already done things I never believed I would. Even stepping out of Northampton and being in London - London always seemed like the big city I might go to for Carnival, go for a party and a chill and then head home.
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
I think, a lot of times in a big city, you're working even when you're not.
I don't like a big city.
New York is a weird place.
I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner.
I'd never thought about living in London until about 1999.
When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.
