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 [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.
  Robert Moses

 Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

 We must continue the course for the waterfront development and wait for the due process already in place by the city. Waterfront development must continue in order to deliver long-denied benefits to Glen Cove residents.

 A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
  Guillaume Apollinaire

 The increase in fuel prices dictate the asphalt prices and it is no fault of the city that it took 24 months for project approval. This is nice to have so we don't have to dip into the city budget. The city's portion of the project will remain at $300,000.

 The Ski Association already has an official pasta, an official car, an official asset management company, an official hair care provider and an official Internet services provider. Does it really need an official alcoholic beverage?

 I worked (for) Coles County for 14 years and typically we'd use millings for shoulder work. I suggested the idea and it took some cooperation between the city, the engineering office, city's street crews and Howell Asphalt to make it happen.

 a disaster waiting to happen. ... If a bad hurricane hit, experts say, the city could fill up like a cereal bowl, killing tens of thousands and laying waste to the city's architectural heritage. If the Big One hit, New Orleans could disappear.

 Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.

 [Sunday's Mass served as] a significant moment in the life of our archdiocese and the city of New Orleans, ... The cathedral serves as a symbol that transcends any one faith and speaks to our community as a whole. Today sends a sign of hope to our city, state and nation.

 You cannot patch asphalt without preparation. Why do you want to put a new overlay down and fix it? We will not put down asphalt knowing they're going to put a hole in it.

 I always thought of the waterfront as a quiet area, but the folk festival really changes that. They renovate the waterfront every year. It just keeps getting nicer.

 The boss is very protective of the ballpark. He told me in no uncertain terms to view it as a cathedral and don't do anything that would lose the essence of a baseball cathedral.

 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

 That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.
  Gore Vidal


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