New York Quotes - Page 39

• I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.

  Paul Laffoley

  Mean, World, Shapes

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

  George Carlin

  Strong, Marijuana, Two

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Block, Too Late, Pace

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more "masculine influence," whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin.

  George Carlin

  Basketball, Brother, Couple

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.

  Ann Voskamp

  Hurt, Book, Thinking

  Source: churchleaders.com

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• [Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And, man, they wrote some great poems.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Children, Writing, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've always been a city person - London boy - and New York is just incredible. It has what London has but almost more in terms of variety, culture, social life, everything. I just like walking the streets and feeling the energy and the vibe.

  Frank Lampard

  Boys, Cities, Feelings

  Source: www.nycgo.com

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• People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.

  Frank Lampard

  Past, Opposites, People

  Source: www.nycgo.com

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• Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the truck drove through and killed all these people. It's the new reality, unfortunately. The idea of trying to explore how we process this kind of event, how we survive emotionally, what we tell our kids: That was the movie [Patriots Day] we wanted to make.

  Peter Berg

  Nice, Kids, Reality

  Source: ew.com

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• Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself sat down and wrote the character, it was completely, one hundred percent based on Laurence Fishburne. Like, in my head I saw this guy.

  Chad Stahelski

  Character, Guy, Down And

  Source: screenrant.com

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• One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.

  Bill Ayers

  Children, Cities, Community

  Source: www.smithmag.net

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• It was a lot of fun playing against one of the best players to ever play this game in Michael Jordan. For me it was a dream to play against him night in and night out in the NBA with the New York Knicks.

  John Starks

  Dream, Fun, Player

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Coach [Pat] Riley's record speaks for itself. What makes him so special is he is a coach clearly concerned about winning. His whole thinking when he wakes up every day is how can I make this team [ New York Knicks] more focused and going through 82 games during the regular season and the playoffs.

  John Starks

  Team, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Kids, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Unfortunately, much of the media in Washington, D.C., along with New York, Los Angeles in particular, speaks not for the people, but for the special interests and for those profiting off a very, very obviously broken system.

  Donald Trump

  Media, People, Broken

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When I am in London, I think my favourite city is London, but when I am in New York, I feel it is New York. It is very hard to choose between the two.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Thinking, Favourite City, Cities

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• I'm dealing with Mexico, I'm dealing with Argentina. We were dealing in this case with Mike Flynn. All this information gets put into The Washington Post and The New York Times, and I'm saying, what's going to happen when I'm dealing on the Middle East? We've got to stop it. That's why it's a criminal penalty.

  Donald Trump

  Middle East, Criminals, Argentina

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more, I wish you had investigated more, because it might have saved the country of the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Pigs, Wish

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm telling you, the disconnect is big, and the gap of understanding between the people in Washington, in news media, the New York/Boston/Washington corridor and the rest of the country, that gap is widening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Media, Boston

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The intensity at a G Herbo show is crazy with fans especially in New York. It's always crazy and at home (Chicago) of course. The intensity is always crazy depending on the energy that I give, they feed off my energy.

  Lil Herb

  Crazy, Home, Giving

  Source: thesource.com

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• We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups. Everywhere there are women who have gotten together to examine global warming, and women who have gotten together to prepare each other for single parenting - there are women who have come together to be supportive to those whose mates are in prison, male or female, partners are in prison. All sorts of gatherings of women. I mean, I'm just celebrating my 80th year on this planet, and I look back 50 years ago and there was nothing like that.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Florida, Years

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My memories are beautiful because my wife Joan is English and shortly after we were married, we stayed in London and I never forgot it. We loved it so much that we've been back very often and it's always a thrill. To me, there's New York City where I was born and raised and then there's London!

  Stan Lee

  Beautiful, Memories, Cities

  Source: www.theartsdesk.com

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• There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland. We have young people like Eduardo Corral, who won the Yale Younger Poets Award. José Antonio Rodriguez, published by Luis Rodriguez. But there are only a few of us who are paid attention to in New York. There are legions behind us who are not.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Awards, Yale, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

  Stan Lee

  Years, Nostalgic, Neighborhood

  Source: wwd.com

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