Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.
You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.
England ist meine Heimat. London ist meine Heimat. In New York fühlt es sich so an, als würde ich ein Jahr lang in einer unvertrauten Umgebung leben. Es ist eine sehr schöne, um darin ein Jahr zu verbringen, aber am Ende werde ich auf jeden Fall wieder nach Hause gehen.
I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.
Ich persönlich bevorzuge die Dunkle Seite.
Alkohol ist wie Liebe. Der erste Kuss ist magisch, der zweite ist intim, der dritte ist Routine. Danach zieht man ihn aus.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
The streets were dark with something more than night.
Bei Harry Potter mitzuspielen ist ein bisschen, wie in der Mafia zu sein. Ist man erstmal dabei, gibt es kein zurück.
Daniel Radcliffe (als Schauspieler von Harry Potter)
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
Ich liebe die ganze Geschichte des Jazz. Die alten Sachen klingen besser als je zuvor.
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Meine Chancen, Premierminister zu werden, sind in etwa so gut, wie die Chance, Elvis auf dem Mars zu finden, oder dass ich als Olive wiedergeboren werde.
Boris Johnson - Juni 2012
Meine Art und Weise zu sprechen wurde von niemand geringerem als Arnold Schwarzenegger kritisiert. Das war ein Tiefpunkt, meine Freunde, für seine rhetorischen Fähigkeiten von einem einsilbigen österreichischen Cyborg verunglimpft zu werden.
Versprechungen machen ist einfach - es ist harte Arbeit sich an sie zu halten.
I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction.
The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.
Ich habe einen kleinen Volkswagen Käfer mit dem Motto "Fahren oder umarmen?" Er fährt mit Biodiesel.
I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'
In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.
Wer Schönheit mit verminderter Intelligenz verbindet, beweist damit sein eigenes limitiertes Denkvermögen.
Wenn du nicht im Einklang mit Mutter Natur leben kannst, dann ist etwas falsch mit dir.
Es ist sehr wichtig zu wissen, wann man den Mund halten sollte. Man sollte keine Angst vor der Stille haben.
Gib immer dein bestes und hör nicht auf zu lernen - daran glaube ich.
Was als Intuition der Frau durchgeht, ist oft nicht mehr, als die Durchsichtigkeit der Männer.
My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
I try and imagine myself in situations and figure out how I'd have reacted and responded to them, and then bring that insight into my acting. Much of acting is about borrowing from your real-life experiences.
It is very important for both the parents to spend quality time with their children, at least till they are eight years old, whatever be our social status, or even if grandparents are available to take care of them, and that is the message we try to drive home in 'Pasanga 2.'
I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.
A lot of young policemen have told me that they saw 'Singam' and joined the police force because of that. Some tell me they saw the training process and want to be a cop like that.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Mein Ziel in der Malerei war schon immer eine möglichst genaue Darstellung meiner selbst.
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Egal wie beeindruckend eine Erfindung auch sein kann, sie kann niemals die Fantasie ersetzen.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Etwas stimmt nicht mit Amerika. Ich frage mich manchmal, was die Menschen denken, oder ob sie überhaupt denken.
We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
