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That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.


Gunther Schuller


#auditioned #back #because #center #come

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.


Bobby McFerrin


#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.


Georg Simmel


#impersonal #integration #into #life #metropolitan

You have nothing coming into a major metropolitan area to relocate or locate your business and employees. And you can go across the country and you'll see that.


Richard M. Daley


#area #business #coming #country #employees

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.


Richard M. Daley


#atlanta #california #competing #development #done

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.


Steve Israel


#area #availability #businesses #district #firsthand

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.


Georg Simmel


#any #change #conservative #contrast #could

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.


Georg Simmel


#change #consists #individuality #inner #intensification

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.


James S. Coleman


#area #attend #child #district #each

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.


Debbie Harry


#complicated #diverse #emotional #emotional experiences #ethnically






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