Manhattan Quotes

• Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

  Le Corbusier

  New York, Cities, Vehement

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• Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Queens, Wall, College

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.563, Open Road Media

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• Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Giving, Shows

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.280, St. Martin's Press

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• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, People, Three

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• He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Black And White, Cities

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Comedy, Drama, Romance, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

  Joe Elliott

  Beats, Bigs, Fingers

  "How to travel like a rock star". "Celebrity travel" with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com.

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• He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

  Lewis Mumford

  New York, Pavement, Soil

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• There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Strong, People, Spirit

  "You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

  Raymond Sokolov

  Islands, Lunch, Jersey

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• My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

  Kool Moe Dee

  Perspective, Different

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• Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

  Tea Leoni

  Sometimes, Feels, Particular

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

  James Van Der Beek

  New York, Past, Cities

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

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• So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Mexican, House, Citizens

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• Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Cities, Three, Century

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• I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  School, Kids, Cities

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• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  Laura Linney

  Father, Actresses, Grew

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• Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Men, Different, World

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• But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

  Jason Alexander

  Uncles, Queens, Heart

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• I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

  Joan Jett

  Rocks, Missing, Doe

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• I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

  Ellen Burstyn

  People, Brooklyn, Has Beens

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• Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Boston, People

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• I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

  Michael Bergin

  Gone, Models

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• I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

  Ethan Suplee

  Hippie, Home, Parent

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

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• Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

  Woody Allen

  Powerful, Things In Life, Luck

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• I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

  Woody Allen

  Mad, Surface, Impulse

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Manhattan, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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