New York City Quotes - Page 12

• New York City is my playground.

  Bethenny Frankel

  New York, Cities, Playgrounds

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• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  Oksana Baiul

  Fashion, Workout, New York

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• New York City is the capital for Baseball, not just for the pros, but also for the kids throughout the city, as well. No matter who you root for, the Borough Cup is going to make every kid and community that participates a winner.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, New York, Kids

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• And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

  Sanford I. Weill

  New York, Team, School

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• New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.

  Jonathan Mahler

  Sports, New York, Team

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• The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

  Robert Caro

  New York, Talking, Cities

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• Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

  Robert Caro

  New York, Cities, Ballet

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• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Children, Home

  "Interview: How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life". Interview with Angela Montefinise, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

  Robert MacNeil

  Retirement, New York, Thinking

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• Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.

  Jiang Zemin

  New York, Condolences, Cities

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• But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.

  Mark Sutcliffe

  Running, New York, Cities

  Mark Sutcliffe (2013). “Why I Run: The Remarkable Journey of the Ordinary Runner”, p.70, eBookIt.com

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• I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, New York, Mean

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• Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate clients.

  Murray Rothbard

  New York, Mean, Cities

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• I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

  Tom Ridge

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  "Ridge: Alert to remain orange through the week". Interview with Bill Hemmer, cnn.com. December 30, 2003.

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• New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Cities, Example

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• Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

  Bill Janklow

  Jobs, New York, Fall

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• If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

  Jim Rogers

  New York, Smart, Moving

  Interview with Joe Dedona, ritholtz.com. July 21, 2013.

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• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mom, New York, Kids

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• The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.

  Tom Ridge

  New York, Cities, Would Be

  "'A Second 9/11': An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine" by Michel Chossudovsky, www.globalresearch.ca. October 31, 2008.

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• When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

  "9/11 was 'worst day' and 'the best day'" by Rudy Giuliani, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 7, 2011.

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• The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Stars, Dark

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

  Patti Smith

  New York, Struggle, Taken

  "Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 4, 2010.

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• According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.

  Robert Klein

  Bullying, Teacher, New York

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• Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Opportunity, Cities

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• It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

  Barry Sanders

  Football, New York, Cities

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