New York Quotes - Page 32

• [Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

  Steve Inskeep

  Answers, Debate, Should

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Mark] Lilla sees a deeper problem, and he wrote an article in The New York Times denouncing identity liberalism.He says liberals have appealed to African-Americans or women or the LGBT community but failed to craft a strong, broad national message. He's not the only person saying this. Long before the votes were cast, Bernie Sanders argued the Democrats lost the white working class by not speaking broadly to the country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Strong, Lgbt Community

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

  Erykah Badu

  Years, Dallas, Half

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• The president-elect [Donald Trump] himself in the interview with "The New York Times" says there is no law that governs conflict of interest in - with the president.

  Chuck Todd

  Law, President, Interviews

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

  Bette Midler

  Block, Cities, Green

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  Bette Midler

  Cutting, Parks, Firsts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

  Billy Crystal

  Growing Up, Kids, Missing

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

  Ryan McGinley

  Moving, New Family, Cool Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I couldn't wait to come to New York to reinvent myself.

  Ryan McGinley

  Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

  Ryan McGinley

  Home, Thinking, Tails

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

  Ryan McGinley

  People, Admire, Can Do

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet.

  Ryan McGinley

  Closets, Stills, Moved

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

  Ryan McGinley

  Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets.

  Richard Meier

  Population, Taiwan, Density

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• In high-tax New York, in high-tax California, the governors of those states are constantly offering tax breaks, tax exemptions to any number of companies if they will locate in those states. The left does it all the time. We point it out every time we learn about it because it's hypocritical.

  Rush Limbaugh

  California, Numbers, Offering

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Two, California

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

  Ai Weiwei

  Phones, Notes, China

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

  Ai Weiwei

  Talking, Cities, Bookstores

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

  Ai Weiwei

  Artist, Cities, Chinese

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.

  Ai Weiwei

  Encouragement, Artist, Opportunity

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, Care, Enough

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, Care, Cold

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

  Ai Weiwei

  Home, Given, Stills

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

  Boris Johnson

  Real, Risk, Reason

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".

  Emma Stone

  Beautiful, Eight, Years

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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