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Lewis Mumford Quotes

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990

Topics

New York City Perfect New Model

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Life Water Agriculture Human Finite

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

Year Build Within Source Indigenous

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

Day Admit Rock Band Big Roll

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

Home Best School Potential Short

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

Statik Selektah

DJ Person Meet Rapper Every Makes

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

Life Generation My Life Experiences

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Business Time You Career Down Want

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like I'm particularly literary. There's a sort of academic label that's put on me that seems inaccurate.

Music Focus Me Feel Always Academic

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Writing You Know Write Going Poem

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Faith Childhood Imagination Tough

My father is a big guy; he's had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that's scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don't want that.

Father People Want Real Scary Big

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Clayton M. Christensen

Life Time Purpose School Sail Look

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