New York City Quotes - Page 7

• I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

  David Rakoff

  New York, Order, Cities

  David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.7, Anchor

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• You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month.

  Tibor Fischer

  New York, Cities, People

  "I lost my heart in ... New York". Interview With Tim Wapshott, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2003.

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• I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

  Warren Farrell

  New York, Men, Cities

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

  Eric Holder

  New York, Airplane, Thinking

  "Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks" by Jack Cloherty, Pierre Thomas, abcnews.go.com. December 21, 2010.

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• In the, uh, '30s and '40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City. I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.

  Al Kooper

  New York, Believe, Cities

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in the Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered on the street! Don't you care about the environment? And I thought about it, and I said, You know what? This isn't the environment. This is New York City. New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it's the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin', stinkin' piece of litter.

  Louis C. K.

  New York, Cities, Pussy

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• I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.

  J. B. Smoove

  New York, Smart, Ohio

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• Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  New York, Cities, America

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

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• I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

  Kim Dickens

  New York, Years, Cities

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

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• My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Cities, Community

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a good right foot, and I was "funky", "soulful", and all that stuff. Then I ran into this group, the Pigeons.

  Carmine Appice

  New York, Cities, Feet

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• I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, New York, Self

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• I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Sports, Baseball, New York

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• I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

  Vito Fossella

  New York, Islands, Cities

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• Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

  Hope Davis

  Summer, Beach, New York

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

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• The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.

  Joe Conason

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

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• I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

  Elliott Abrams

  Mother, Teacher, Queens

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• There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.

  Dabney Coleman

  New York, School, Thinking

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• When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

  Steve Burns

  Mom, Running, New York

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• Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

  Alberto Salazar

  New York, Winning, Men

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• There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  New York, Cities, Average

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.164, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

  Augusten Burroughs

  New York, Cities, People

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• It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

  Regina Doman

  New York, Sleep, Night

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• New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Cities, Progress

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

  Andrej Pejic

  New York, Cities, Want

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