New York City Quotes - Page 4

• Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

  Apolo Ohno

  Morning, New York, Believe

  "Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.

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• You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  New York, Cities, People

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• I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

  Andrej Pejic

  New York, Cities, Want

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• I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Cities, Emigration

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

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• I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

  Steven Tyler

  New York, Fighting, Player

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• I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, School, Kids

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

  Fred Wilson

  New York, Cities, People

  "New York vs. Silicon Valley? No City Has A Lock On Innovation" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Money, New York, Artist

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• My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

  Henny Youngman

  New York, Dad, Drinking

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• Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Views, Cities

  "Quinn: Kick Chick out" by Candice M. Giove, nypost.com. July 29, 2012.

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• I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Cities, Able

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• Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, New York, Real

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• The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another.

  Neil Gaiman

  New York, Hands, Cities

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• It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

  Regina Doman

  New York, Sleep, Night

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• Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of plastic surgeons in New York City. If I were you I'd make an appointment for that face as soon as you get there," he quipped. Sabrina scowled and shook a fist at him. "Keep it up, stinkpot, and you're going to need a plastic surgeon yourself." Puck winked. "No need to get all mushy on me, Grimm.

  Michael Buckley

  New York, Cities, Needs

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• Do y’all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone who owns the biggest gun store in town? Of course I got plenty. I got enough Tasers to light up New York City AND Boston just for giggles. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  New York, Gun, Light

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.202, St. Martin's Griffin

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• So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Zero, New York, Cities

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• they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

  Janet Evanovich

  New York, Light, August

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• The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

  Mitch Albom

  New York, Years, Cities

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

  Nora Ephron

  New York, Home, Buying Things

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• The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Morning, New York

  "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen". Book by Christopher McDougall, March 29, 2011.

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• People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to stay so down-to-earth in the face of such incredible success? ... A third frequently asked question is: "Girl, where you from? Trinidad? Guyana? Dominican Republic? You married? You got kids?" This is mostly asked by guys on the sidewalk selling I LOVE NEW YORK paraphernalia in New York City.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, New York, Kids

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• I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, New York, Blood

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.40, Beacon Press

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