New York Quotes

• I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

  Truman Capote

  House, Tree, Skylines

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.84, Vintage

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• I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.

  Stephon Marbury

  Growing Up, Different, Advantage

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• I've never experienced- besides the birth of my two daughters-the feeling of winning a world championship in New York in the new stadium. It's something I'll never forget.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Daughter, Winning, Two

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• New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

  Mason Cooley

  Way, Unkind

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• I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New York or L.A. I wanted to have space and I wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that. I wanted to just be comfortable. I feel like being in a big city - as much as I find New York, in particular, very inspiring in a lot of ways - can also be claustrophobic.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Order, Cities, Space

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.

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• I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.

  Hoodie Allen

  Jobs, Cities, Musician

  Source: blog.iluvlola.com

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• I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Morning, Couple, Home

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December 2008.

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• One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.

  Jose Parla

  Photography, Teacher, Black And White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

  Peter King

  Country, Finding The One, People

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• I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.

  Brittany Murphy

  Couple, Kids, Feet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, Fall, Bridges

  Source: www.today.com

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• London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

  Dorothy Parker

  Paris, Hopeful, London

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• Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

  Robert De Niro

  Kids, College, Cities

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• I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than they are today. Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City and later when we went to Oxford before we got married we always went to the Catholic church.

  Wesley Clark

  Cities, Oxford, Dating

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely to watch us. People in Nebraska aren't watching things on the computer, they're watching television. Why aren't we programming things for them? We only program things that appeal to New York and Los Angeles and in many ways spit on the rest of the country.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Country, People, Television

  Source: deadline.com

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• Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.

  Bernard Fanning

  Cities, Two, Yesterday

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• I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

  Kevin Morby

  Jobs, Insane, Really Cool

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

  Alan Rickman

  Cities, Like You, Stage

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• I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

  Steve Antin

  Sunset, Thinking, Cities

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

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• In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.

  Jamie Glazov

  Fashion, Wall, Would Be

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• I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

  Josh Brolin

  Moving, Thinking, Appreciate

  "Josh Brolin Talks GANGSTER SQUAD, Fascination with Gangster Culture, His Character, Working with the Incredible Cast and More During Our Set Visit". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 13, 2012.

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• New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

  Zubin Mehta

  World, Lions, Dens

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• Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and criticism, but most of all, it gets your name out there. I would say about 90-100% of my success was down to the mixtapes.

  Joe Budden

  Artist, Names, Creative

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• For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

  Douglas Adams

  Success, War, Intelligent

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

  Piper Perabo

  Thinking, Cities, Ends

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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