New York City Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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 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 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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• From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

  Robert Smithson

  New York, Artist, Cities

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.8, Univ of California Press

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• I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Cities, People

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• I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

  Brooke Shields

  New York, Home, School

  "Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

  Amy Sedaris

  New York, Cities, Firsts

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• One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Powerful, Reading

  "Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2010.

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• In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

  Barbara Corcoran

  New York, Cities, Doe

  Twitter post from Aug 03, 2016

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• I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Cities, Able

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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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• I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mother, Running, Daughter

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

  Heath Ledger

  New York, Cities, Brave

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• I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Cities, Stories

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• '25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Home, Mean

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• I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the energy is just phenomenal. Great crews here. All the technicians, all the artists that work in this industry. I've just been very happy with the body that we've been able to do, especially those films we shot here in New York City.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Artist, Thinking

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• Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Cities, People

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