Quotes About Urban

Well, I grew up in Hell's Kitchen, right next to Times Square, in a subsidized arts building.

I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.

I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!

There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible.

I have great memories of the old Times Square - wouldn't have missed being here to see that place for the world - but I can also deal with the new Times Square in the overall scheme of N.Y. City 2010.

LaGuardia Airport is tiny compared to its sleek modern counterparts, like Atlanta or Denver with their endless parallel runways spread over thousands of acres.

Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.

America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

I think that New York City in the year 1900 was a very difficult place to survive.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.

I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

I haven't got a Cadillac. I've got a subway token.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

If I had moved to Tokyo, I might even have become a completely different person... although, ever since the start, I've never wanted to move to Tokyo. I just can't handle there being so many people.

I was born and grew up in Tokyo, so I didn't know about nature.