New York City Quotes - Page 18

• New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.

  Juan Enriquez

  New York, Cities, Energy

  "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I don't tan in New York City. I don't want to waste it on that. I'll do my own fake tan, actually. It's awesome.

  Nina Agdal

  New York, Cities, Fake

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

  Sarah Silverman

  New York, Cities, Musical

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.

  Maurice Sendak

  New York, Kids, Years

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New York City regarding the reaction to this 1954 Supreme Court [Brown v Board of Education] decision.

  Ella Baker

  Christian, New York, Cities

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".

  Ella Baker

  New York, Children, Believe

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance, sort of carry that idea with them in their own life. Whether it's a weekend in Louisiana or in New York City or in Venice, Italy, or wherever they may be. I think there's something kind of fascinating and powerful about that.

  Jared Leto

  New York, Powerful, Weekend

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, from Cleveland to Baltimore. It was those sorts of incidents that were very much prevalent in the forefront of that jury's conscience that allowed them to believe that this man [O.J. Simpson] could have been set up.

  Sterling K. Brown

  New York, Believe, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to be fixed, you know, an itch to be scratched. I was in that studio trying my best to feel content with myself. I had, like, a stipend. I had a place to sleep. I had a studio to work in. I had nothing else to think about, you know. And that's - that was a huge luxury in New York City.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, New York, Sleep

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.

  Allen Crawford

  Strong, New York, Cities

  "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.

  El-P

  New York, Father, Writing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.

  Juan Enriquez

  New York, Artist, Doctors

  "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

  Misty Copeland

  New York, Years, Cities

  "Not My Job: Ballerina Misty Copeland Gets Quizzed On Morris Dancing". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 25, 2014.

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• I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Kings, New York, Confused

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an open-ended run.

  Jeff Britting

  Running, New York, Play

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• Ralph Kramden, as played by Jackie Gleason, was this big bumbling New York City bus driver who was kind of mean and crass and a little bit egotistical. But underneath it all, he was a big heart looking for a place to land I think.

  George Saunders

  New York, Mean, Heart

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

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• My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Teacher, New York

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Determination, New York, Years

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

  Baratunde Thurston

  New York, College, Cities

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• There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.

  Kehinde Wiley

  New York, Team, Cities

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

  Stephen Colbert

  Family, Leadership, Jobs

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• Unusual weather for New York City. Today it was 68 and foggy. No, wait a minute, that's me. I'm sorry, that's me.

  David Letterman

  New York, Sorry, Cities

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• There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.

  David Letterman

  Thanksgiving, New York, Turkeys

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• Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York
  City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves
  around than any other city in the world.

  David Letterman

  Funny, New York, Moving

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point — if you didn’t believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  David Letterman

  New York, Believe, Cities In The World

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