New York Quotes - Page 25

• New York exists for me. Not me for it.

  Scott McClanahan

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

  Ella Baker

  College, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New York City regarding the reaction to this 1954 Supreme Court [Brown v Board of Education] decision.

  Ella Baker

  Christian, Cities, Effort

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".

  Ella Baker

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

  Zoe Saldana

  Art, Kids, Tangible

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

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• Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, talk show Rush Limbaugh claim - " don't you love that, they "claim." I'm not claiming anything. I'm saying. Anyway. " - that Black Lives Matter exacerbates tensions and sows racial divides." How can that even be debatable?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Alaska, Black, Matter

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets.

  David Krumholtz

  Islands, Long, Creepy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That was pretty cool [Life With Mikey]. Michael J. Fox at the time was huge. I was like, "Whoa, he's a real bona fide movie star!" I was a kid. It was a huge deal. That's kind of it. We shot it in Toronto, and a little bit in New York.

  David Krumholtz

  Stars, Real, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

  Adam Richman

  Men, Awards, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

  Van Morrison

  Mean, Rocks, Groups

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.

  Van Morrison

  Play, Cities, Broken

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Nominations, Democratic

  "The 21 best exchanges in The Washington Post's Trump interviews" by Nick Gass and Nolan D. McCaskill, www.politico.com. August 30, 2016.

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• When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.

  Aja Naomi King

  Independent, Doors, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, and Network. I had a friend who visited New York, and I asked him what it was like. He said, "Oh, it's great. Just wear a coat and don't look anyone in the eye."

  Baz Luhrmann

  Eye, Night, Cities

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

  Chris Christie

  Cities, Chicago, Crime

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

  Garry Winogrand

  Zoos, Children, Distance

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Entertainment, Monkeys

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

  Garry Winogrand

  Couple, Years, Gypsy

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New York, you have it in all your films.' But mostly it's because I know New York, and I know Brooklyn at this time. I know the lives there, because I have lived in them.

  Ira Sachs

  Thinking, People, Special

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I've always created solo work. When I first came to New York I was working in a few different areas; I was working as a drummer, a vocalist, an actor, and a dancer. I had gotten picked up more on the music side and that sort of went, and that's where I found my community in New York and that's the path that I went down.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  Dancer, Community, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm from New York. I grew up there. I grew up in Westchester County, the suburbs. For me, that was always the best of both worlds. I was super lucky to have a place where I could pretty much practice drums unperturbed. Obviously there were neighbor's complaints, but not very often, and I could get to the city easily by myself or with my parents.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  Practice, Cities, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I also have an amazing codesigner and an amazing partnership with New York & Co. The exciting part of growing together and having this kind of long-term relationship is that they can anticipate where I'm going with something. So our relationship is very defined, it's a true partnership so I'm not doing it all by myself.

  Eva Mendes

  Long, Together, Growing

  Source: wwd.com

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• I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance, sort of carry that idea with them in their own life. Whether it's a weekend in Louisiana or in New York City or in Venice, Italy, or wherever they may be. I think there's something kind of fascinating and powerful about that.

  Jared Leto

  Powerful, Weekend, Thinking

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no exaggeration that The New York Times has more people in India than they have in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a borough of two million people. They're not a Bloomingdale's people, not trendy, sophisticated, the quiche and Volvo set. The New York Times does not serve those people.

  Edwin Diamond

  Media, Two, People

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