New York City Quotes - Page 6

• I think of New York City lost in stars
  forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

  Gregory Corso

  New York, Stars, Night

  Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City.

  Kristen Johnston

  Love, Dream, New York

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• Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.

  David Cross

  New York, Cities, Lots Of Friends

  "David Cross from Arrested Development". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. February 1, 2004.

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• The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

  Van Jones

  New York, Government, Cities

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• I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

  Piper Perabo

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

  Alec Baldwin

  New York, Cities, Stupidity

  ABFoundation @ABFalecbaldwin, twitter.com. May 13, 2014.

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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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• I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

  Judd Nelson

  New York, School, Years

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• Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

  Melissa Joan Hart

  New York, Kids, Cities

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• A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

  Liz Sheridan

  New York, Cities, Long

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• I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.

  Bar Refaeli

  New York, Eight, Cities

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• I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

  Scott Speedman

  New York, Cities, More Time

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• In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience.

  Eric Foner

  New York, Race, Class

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• When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.

  Tom Waits

  New York, Blow, Dust

  "One for the (Style) Hall of Fame: Tom Waits's Pointed Shoes". www.esquire.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.

  Barry Corbin

  New York, Wall, Civilization

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• Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

  Regis Philbin

  Inspirational, Basketball, New York

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• When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

  Lana Del Rey

  New York, Good Friend, Cities

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• No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

  Chris Paul

  New York, Florida, Who I Am

  Interview with Teena Apeles, me.askmen.com.

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• When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Teacher, New York

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• In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

  Judith Stone

  Suicide, New York, Women

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• I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City.

  Regina Hall

  New York, Nightlife, Cities

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• Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  New York, Cities

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• I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

  Rachel Kushner

  New York, Men, Cities

  Rachel Kushner (2013). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Witty, New York, Rap

  Song: Simon Says, Album: Internal Affairs

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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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