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I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the idea that the perpetuated story of Aquaman is that he only has powers in water, and he talks to fish. I think it's the idea of him in the middle of a city just doesn't make a lot of sense to people. It's just the character itself. Geoff Johns

Character People Water Made Joke First Sense Think City Only He Idea Know Powers Make Him Readers Sure Talks Comics Fish Lot Itself Did Maybe Just Middle Story Who

The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government. Geoff Mulgan

Government Technology Made Understanding Valley City London Silicon Vast Never Investment Knowledgeable Known Matched Tradition Been Just

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both. Geoffrey West

You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. Geoffrey West

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

Great People Big City Magnet Up Role Sucking Plays

I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester. George A. Romero

Bronx City New Up York New York New York City Grew Place Lived

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. George Ade

Entertainment Country City Traffic Just Form Popular Funeral Interruption

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle. George Best

Game Battle Big Every City Week League Contention Always Were Arsenal Leeds Lots Manchester Teams Liverpool Playing

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot

History Travel Strange Past Visible Ancestral City Seems Trophies Afar Where Rome Procession Moving Whole Hemisphere Images Funeral Gathered

You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city. George Karl

Love Time You Faster Other Spend City See Guys More No Question Check Always How Still Go Question Scorer Lot Scores Than Any Little Coached Players Watching Playing

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution. George Murray

'Treme' begins after Hurricane Katrina, and it's a year-by-year account of how everyday people there put their lives back together. It's sort of a testament to, or an argument for why, a great American city like New Orleans needs to be saved and preserved. George Pelecanos

Great Needs Together People Argument Great American Preserved Saved Everyday Everyday People Back Hurricane City Hurricane Katrina Put New Like Sort How Testament New Orleans Account Begins American After Katrina Why Lives Orleans

It's a tradition that a writer will try to plant his flag in a certain city and protect that. The way to get your rep is to find the essence of the city and get it down on paper. George Pelecanos

Try Plant Will Down Way Paper City Find Writer Protect Rep Tradition His Get Flag Essence Certain Your

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. George Santayana

Mind Ancient City Sedentary Like Renaissance Pilgrim

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes. George Vecsey

Pure Stronger Kid City Carter Vanilla New York Tastes New York

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city. George Woodcock

Freedom Believe City Between Connection

My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I was about 5, and Daddy started me singing in clubs. Then I started singing on the radio in Oklahoma City when I was 7. Georgia Holt

Me Mother Singing Say Oklahoma Frantic City Born Pretty About Least Left Childhood Clubs Then Radio Daddy Started

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know. Geraldo Rivera

Will Rest Half Think Way City Tourists New Know French Sort Quarter New Orleans May Create Disneyland Population Ever Orleans

New York City has changed enormously. My gut impression of it now is that it's like being in a sci-fi novel: 'Blade Runner' syndrome. Nothing seems real anymore; everything is pre-packaged. Gerard Malanga

I was born in New York City on a cold January night when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. Fortunately, my mother was in the hospital rather than at home at the time. Gertrude B. Elion

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. Gianfranco Ferre

Design Furniture City Dress House Same Process Room Street

Kansas City is truly an awesome town. Gillian Flynn

Awesome City Town Truly Kansas Kansas City

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways. Gillian Jacobs

Definitely Run City New York New York New York City Cops

Eventually, we want to be able to say, whether in your own neighborhood or a city across the globe, our technology will be needed to break through barriers - whether it's money, time, languages, or simply choice. Gillian Tans

Time Technology Money Will Own Our Say Neighborhood City Able Through Simply Globe Want Break Whether Choice Across Your Languages Barriers Eventually Needed

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