George Pelecanos Quotes

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better.

People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the social interaction.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.

Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

We have stopped making communities in which people want to live and are making communities where people drive through.

All it takes is an understanding that humans, not buildings come first when designing a city.

Arkansas Comes First.

I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.

Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

I don't want San Francisco to be just a place where people just move for opportunities.

Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.

Obviously as a mayor, I'm in competition with my neighboring cities as well as cities around the country.

I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.

I heard that Hubballi-Dharwad is going to be a Smart City. But it should ensure the sense of community and love is not lost.

I have lived my whole life in Delhi. I used to live in Rohini and then I moved to Munirka. I have seen north and south Delhi very closely. That's why my songs and raps have a Dilli waali feel to it. Delhi made me who I am today and I am proud of it.

Glasgow is a city, but it's one with a small-town mentality.

I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based.

We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.

The people of Baltimore are great. I love Baltimore. What I looked forward to, every year, was getting a new apartment in a different part of town and hanging out. People started to see you in the character that you were, so everyone thought I was real police.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.