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How beautiful it is to lose ourselves in these little streets on the island.
I, so help me God, I grew up walking those streets, and they were always there.
It was an unorthodox upbringing, but as a kid on the streets of New York, you learn how to trust your own instincts, you learn how to go with your own ideas.
People started to drop less litter in the streets, for example, started to pay taxes, started to feel something they had forgotten, and beauty was acting as a guardsman where municipal police, or the state itself, were missing.
We planted 55,000 trees and bushes in the streets.
He not only brags about my college degree, but also that I was the first woman, and that I am the first woman to drive him through the streets of Kabul.
Look at the toxic mix of unemployed graduates on our streets, while employers say they cannot find the people with the skills they need.
We are not talking about our computers, nor the cameras that are on the streets, in the stores and shop-windows, in the airports and trains, and wherever we are, being watched.
Or you could end up in Syria, where people are shot on the streets; activists, especially journalists.
One of the lines of encouragement that I heard over and over was, "The streets of Hollywood are littered with the carcasses of people like you, who think you're going to come to this town and make movies."
In America, before the motor vehicle, transportation depended entirely on the urban horse, which dropped, without restraint, 25 to 50 pounds of manure on the streets every day together with a gallon of urine.
Clive Barnes in The Times said that it was as if Mr. Papp took a broom and swept up all the refuse from the East Village streets onto the stage at the Public.
My dad was a high-ranking gang member who ran the streets.
Police officers were taking bribes from hawkers who were hawking on the streets.
I was faced with an organized defamation campaign in the local media combined with false rumors shared in family gatherings, in the streets and in schools.
The streets were packed with police cars and religious police cars, but some hundred brave Saudi women broke the ban and drove that day.
I would wander the streets searching for food, and I remember seeing a small child tied to a mother's back eating chips, and wanting to steal them from him.
Luanda, it was full of land mine victims who were struggling to survive on the streets and war orphans living in sewers under the streets, and a tiny, very wealthy elite who gossiped about shopping trips to Brazil and Portugal.
Like this love story, for example: the daughter of a prosperous Cantonese store owner fell in love playing on the streets of the port of Callao in Lima with the son of a famous Genovese pastry chef from Italy.
The streets were flooded, but people didn't want to miss out on the opportunity of being part of such a national day.
It involves the design of cities and the design of city streets.
Streets are some of the most valuable resources that a city has, and yet it's an asset that's largely hidden in plain sight.
You can remake your streets quickly, inexpensively, it can provide immediate benefits, and it can be quite popular.
For many cities, our streets have been in a kind of suspended animation for generations.
So we worked hard to refocus our agenda, to maximize efficient mobility, providing more room for buses, more room for bikes, more room for people to enjoy the city, and to make our streets as safe as they can be for everybody that uses them.
When we started out, we did some early surveys about how our streets were used, and we found that New York City was largely a city without seats.
This is actually in Los Angeles, and they actually copied even the green dots that we had on the streets.
What has happened is the average daily ridership on the streets of New York is 36,000 people.
And I think you also see it in the kinds of riders that are on the streets.
And so, I think that the lesson that we have from New York is that it's possible to change your streets quickly, it's not expensive, it can provide immediate benefits, and it can be quite popular.
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