City Criticism Quotes

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.

It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!

It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.

Sao Paulo is a dump. That's a known fact.

Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

I don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.

I love New York. New York made me the man that I am, and I always rep it to the fullest, but right now it's completely different from what it was and anybody that says it's for the better is straight up lyin'. Straight up lyin'!

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It's a magical place. The desert. I do understand people's criticisms, but it's a magical place and a beautiful city, even though there are a lot of things that are wrong with it.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

I don't like Philly. I don't care at all about Philly.

I hated L.A., so spread out, so phony. It's like Vegas. It isn't real.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.