Manhattan Quotes - Page 10

• I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

  Ralph Nader

  Cities, People, Doe

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• The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what? You know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that!

  Jon Stewart

  Views, Imagination, Liberty

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• I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

  Essence Atkins

  Children, School, Ballet

  "Essence Atkins - The 'Are We There Yet?' Interview with Kam Williams". aalbc.com.

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• When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

  Doug Liman

  Thinking, Play, Tiny

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

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• For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!

  Brian Cox

  New York, Islands, Bridges

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• When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beach, Stars, Yankees

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• I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Distance, Thinking

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

  Argus Hamilton

  Mom, Brother, Jobs

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• Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

  John Stossel

  Children, People, Way

  "Studio Briefing", movieweb.com. January 28, 2004.

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• I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I like Central Park better than the wilderness, and I like the canyons of Manhattan better than Central Park, and I like the interior of my apartment better than the canyons of Manhattan, and I like my two rooms better with the shades down at all times than with the shades up. I'm not an agoraphobe at all, but I am a claustrophile, if you see the distinction.

  Isaac Asimov

  Central Park, Two, Parks

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• What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.

  David Edelstein

  Xbox, Heart, Men

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• The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .

  Bill Gates

  Book, Average, Names

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• It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased for strings of beads, but you find it impossible not to believe that it has always been a city; that if you dug beneath it you would find the ruins of another, older city, and then another and another.

  Michael Cunningham

  Crush, Believe, Moving

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.14, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  United States, Given, Terrible

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• Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

  Philip Roth

  Teaching, Talking, People

  Philip Roth (2010). “The Human Stain”, p.190, Random House

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• I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Stress, Two

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Jobs, Coffee, Stories

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• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Two, Lunch

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• I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Art, School, College

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• Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Space, Able

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• Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Alternatives, Speech

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki”, p.142, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fang and I searched in every way we could think of and found a million institutes of one kind or another, in Manhattan and throughout New York state, but none of them seemed promising. My favorite? The Institute for Realizing Your Pet's Inner Potential. Anyone who can explain that to me, drop a line.

  James Patterson

  New York, Thinking, Pet

  "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment". Book by James Patterson, books.google.ru. April 28, 2011.

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• I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Light, Wind

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• Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Differences, Gone

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Rome, Earth, Projects

  Alastair Reynolds (2004). “Redemption Ark”, p.42, Penguin

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