Janet Varney Quotes

That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world.

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.

The people really are what make New York City great.

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.

New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.

I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you have so many nationalities that are actually mixed together - it's so multicultural.

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.

Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque, seething, banal, sometimes plain pleasant, and sometimes awesome.

There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

That's the good thing about pop. You can do whatever you like... it's a bendable medium.

For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently.

I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.

New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.

I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.