New York City Quotes - Page 8

• You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  New York, Cities, People

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• My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

  Cleveland Abbe

  New York, Ignorance, Weather

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• On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, New York, Eight

  "Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 2012.

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• I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape after having a baby if I ran the New York City Marathon. I ran in it November 1986. I had just shot the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, so I was in great shape.

  Kim Alexis

  Sports, Baby, New York

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• A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

  Ted Allen

  New York, Eye, Winning

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

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• I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

  Alec Baldwin

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• I would love to do a television show in New York City.

  Ellen Barkin

  New York, Cities, Television

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• I love New York City; I've got a gun.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, New York, Gun

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• The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

  Mario Batali

  New York, Cities, Hamptons

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• No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Cities, Spirit

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

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• I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Cities, Trying

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• The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

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

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• I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

  Graydon Carter

  New York, Cities, People

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

  Agatha Christie

  New York, Writing, Cities

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

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• There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

  Gail Collins

  New York, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

  David Rockefeller

  New York, Powerful, Cities

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

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• I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Girl, New York, Cities

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• The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another.

  Neil Gaiman

  New York, Hands, Cities

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• Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, New York, Real

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• It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Cities, Able

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• I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Views, Cities

  "Quinn: Kick Chick out" by Candice M. Giove, nypost.com. July 29, 2012.

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• My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

  Henny Youngman

  New York, Dad, Drinking

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• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Money, New York, Artist

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• Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

  Fred Wilson

  New York, Cities, People

  "New York vs. Silicon Valley? No City Has A Lock On Innovation" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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