The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.
Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.
I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one. "
When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you make of it.
Just like dust, we settle in this town.
I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night
I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.
Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.
If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.
Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?
One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?
By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.
I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.
Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave. ' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal. ' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.
I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.