Manhattan Quotes

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

  Le Corbusier

  New York, Cities, Vehement

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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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• It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.

  H. L. Mencken

  New York, Years, California

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• I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

  Diego Della Valle

  Dream, New York, Bridges

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

  Peter Bart

  New York, Grew Up, Theater

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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, 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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• 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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• In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Queens, Different, Brooklyn

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• That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

  Gore Vidal

  President, Loyal, Retainers

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.103, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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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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• Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Miracle, Brooklyn, Gang

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

  Melissa Joan Hart

  School, Kids, Cities

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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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• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Cities, Design, Needs

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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

  Michael Bergin

  Gone, Models

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