New York City Quotes - Page 3

• Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Confused

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• New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Beautiful, New York, Crazy

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• It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

  Agatha Christie

  New York, Writing, Cities

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

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• I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

  Graydon Carter

  New York, Cities, People

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

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

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• I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Cities, Trying

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• No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Cities, Spirit

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

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• I love New York City; I've got a gun.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, New York, Gun

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• I would love to do a television show in New York City.

  Ellen Barkin

  New York, Cities, Television

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• I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

  Alec Baldwin

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

  Vin Diesel

  New York, Years, Cities

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• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  Vin Diesel

  Teacher, New York, Father

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, New York, Block

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• When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

  Diane Lane

  New York, Growing Up, Father

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• You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Running, Jobs, New York

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• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, New York, Children

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• As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

  Jonathan Kozol

  New York, School, Cities

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• Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

  Ed Koch

  New York, Aqua, Cities

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• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  Ed Koch

  New York, Law, Knives

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• I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, New York, Moving

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• I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Home, Cities

  "Actor Jesse Eisenberg Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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• I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Children, Cities

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• I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

  Steve Earle

  New York, Cities, People

  "Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle". Interview with Michael Tedder, www.spin.com. May 17, 2011.

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• There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

  Steve Earle

  New York, Cities, Long

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• I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape after having a baby if I ran the New York City Marathon. I ran in it November 1986. I had just shot the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, so I was in great shape.

  Kim Alexis

  Sports, Baby, New York

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