New York Quotes - Page 30

• I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Writing, Trying, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Facts, Building, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Stars, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.

  Daughn Gibson

  Growing Up, People, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.

  Daughn Gibson

  Crazy, Firsts, Drivers

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

  Britta Phillips

  Ego, Obnoxious, I Can

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  People, Littles, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not cutting services. But I'm cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education. I believe common core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be lo - you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Believe, Cutting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

  Devendra Banhart

  Moving, Cities, Velvet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was...New York.

  Zach Condon

  Song, Writing, Names

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Car, Drug, Want

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Tourism, Care, Garments

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview With Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, Immigration, Borders

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Junk, Tourists

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, Desire, Vets

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Directors, Admission

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Jobs, Home, School

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Boston fans - and New York fans are the same - it doesn't matter what you do outside of baseball, they don't forgive or forget that you play in pinstripes and they don't care about your interests off the field.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Baseball, Boston, Play

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that."

  Tony Hsieh

  Jobs, Passion, Years

  Interview with Peter Hopkins, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Reputation, New York Times

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

  Malachy McCourt

  Cities, Government, Republican

  Source: bigthink.com

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• For a lot of women who don't go to college, or for a lot of women who aren't in New York or D.C. or someplace where there's like a large feminist organization they can get involved in, they may be doing feminist work, right, like locally or with a grassroots organization or in their own lives, but if they don't have that support system and if they don't have that availability to feminist language, I think we're missing out on something.

  Jessica Valenti

  College, Thinking, Organization

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.

  Juan Enriquez

  Artist, Doctors, Cities

  "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

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• There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

  Jenny Slate

  Makeup, Hollywood, Pieces

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

  T Bone Burnett

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

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