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Angeles
«European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles»
Author: Cedric Belfrage
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Country
| Keywords:
Angeles, European, imperialism, long ago, missionaries, Paris, radio, suburb, Tahiti
«Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.»
«In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?»
«I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.»
Author: Russell Crowe
(Actor)
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Country
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Africa, Angeles, bubonic, bubonic plague, Continent, disappeared, plague, swallowed, the continent, tidal, tidal wave, wave, Zealand
«Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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Cities
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Angeles, anonymity, area, automobile, blanketed, foul, freeway, freeways, garages, gas station, highways, land area, monopolize, monopolized, parking, parking lot, quarter, stations
«A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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Angeles, bank clerk, bank robber, cash, checking, checking account, clerk, clerking, deposit, deposited, depositing, deposits, robber
«Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Angeles, blackout, bombardment, breaking off, California, catastrophic, distinguished, earthquake, horizontal, inferno, Kong, Pacific, presuppose, presupposes, sliding, the Pacific, towering, vertical
«Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.»
Author: Martina Navratilova
(Tennis Player)
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adopted, Angeles, beach, Big Country, Big Town, blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, Boston, brainy, brash, brawny, Chicago, Dallas, fort, forts, Fort Worth, Francisco, friendly, hedonistic, home in, inland, palm, Palm Beach, Palm Springs, peaceful, Philadelphia, rubs, San, San Francisco, sensuous, Town of, Virginia, Virginia Beach, waterway
«[George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington State, or Los Angeles, or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and begins to feel that this is my city; I own a part of this Capital, and I envy for the time being those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admit that there are defects in the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Columbia. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judgment of history that the result vindicates the foresight of the fathers.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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Angeles, Columbia, defects, district, districts, District of Columbia, Federal, for the time being, George Washington, system of government, The District, tingle, tingled, tingles, tingling, vindicate, vindicated