Manhattan Quotes - Page 10

• I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

  Steve Burns

  Kids, Ideas, Who I Am

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• Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Technology, Thinking, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

  Herb Caen

  Fall, Humility, Men

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• For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!

  Brian Cox

  New York, Islands, Bridges

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• Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

  Johnny Carson

  Travel, Home, Men

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• The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New York Times, which has thousands of reporters constantly producing enormous front-page stories about bauxite...The [New York] Post would write about bauxite only if famous celebrites were arrested for snorting it in an exclusive Manhattan nightclub.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Writing, Media

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• I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Children, Kids

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

  Martin Rees

  Commitment, Moon, Challenges

  Martin Rees (2011). “From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons”, p.60, Profile Books

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• Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as
  now,
  The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even
  the sight of the wounded,)
  Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus!
  Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

  Walt Whitman

  Powerful, Eye, Sight

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.280, St. Martin's Press

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• In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

  Quentin Crisp

  Actors, Surface, Unemployed

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• I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Desire, Population, Underwater

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• For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Book, Reading, Years

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• L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

  Matt Walsh

  Kids, People, Insane

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.

  Eli Attie

  Grief, Ideas, Noses

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• As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

  Preet Bharara

  Worry, United States, Gathering

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• I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

  Val Kilmer

  Circumstances

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• I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Book, Phones, People

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• People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

  Christine Quinn

  Winning, People, West

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• The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

  Rick Warren

  Atheist, Europe, Numbers

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• Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Jobs, Coffee, Stories

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• I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Art, School, College

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• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Two, Lunch

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• From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

  Penn Jillette

  New York, Couple, Squares

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

  Rodney Atkins

  Heart, Opportunity, Iowa

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• I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Stress, Two

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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