New Yorkers Quotes - Page 7

• Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

  Russell Lynes

  Sympathy, Real, Heart

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• I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Friendship, Children, Believe

  "Bill Clinton backs gay marriage bill" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. May 05, 2011.

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• The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Home, Reality, Vivid

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• New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

  Anderson Cooper

  Real, Moving, Estates

  "Surviving the real estate game" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. August 2005.

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• Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, Pain, Real

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

  Brian Setzer

  Player, Guitar, Jazz

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• You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

  Colson Whitehead

  Real

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, p.4, Anchor

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• Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Oxygen, Never Forget, Monopoly

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• [Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. 

  Jack London

  Children, Taken, Mean

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• True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

  Jimmy Breslin

  New York, Interesting, World

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• New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

  Jeannette Walls

  Unfriendly

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

  Eric Alterman

  Stars, Editors, Analysis

  "Eric Alterman: Pay Anchors Like Journalists Instead Of Hedge Fund Managers" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Apologizing, Sincerely

  "Spitzer to Step Down; Paterson to Step In". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2008.

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• More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving, Prejudice, Chance

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• I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Somewhere Else, September, Sometimes

  "Sigourney Weaver for 'Tadpole'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

  Anthony Weiner

  New York, School, Classic

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• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Writing, Knives

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.159, Cornell University Press

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• There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

  John Oliver

  Inherent

  "Guest Host John Oliver Will Try Not to Destroy 'The Daily Show'". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.

  John Oliver

  Running, Opposites, Negativity

  "Guest Host John Oliver Will Try Not to Destroy 'The Daily Show'". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

  Christine Quinn

  Helping, Persons, I Can

  "Christine Quinn, Gay NYC Mayoral Candidate, Says LGBT Community Is Behind Her" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

  Christine Quinn

  Girl, Development, Helping

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• I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

  Christine Quinn

  Done, Knows, I Can

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• In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, New York

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1665, Delphi Classics

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• Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Cities, Despair, Answers

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.82, Granta Books

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• In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fall, Color, Years

  Mohsin Hamid (2008). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.27, Penguin UK

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