New Yorkers Quotes - Page 4

• I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cities, Bagels, Fit

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• New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

  Jeannette Walls

  Unfriendly

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

  Jimmy Breslin

  New York, Interesting, World

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• [Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. 

  Jack London

  Children, Taken, Mean

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• New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

  David Levithan

  Odds, Order, Eight

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• When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

  "9/11 was 'worst day' and 'the best day'" by Rudy Giuliani, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 7, 2011.

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• So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Looks

  Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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• I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Believe, Air

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• I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

  Douglas Wilson

  Edginess, Young, Edgy

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• The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers

  John Spencer

  Years, Needs, Clinton

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• You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

  Andy Roddick

  Sports, Essence, Central Park

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• The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

  John Lahr

  Art, Drama, Practice

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• My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

  Samantha Bee

  Crazy, Home, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

  Aravind Adiga

  Crazy, Years, Cities

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• Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Mistake, Media, Editors

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• Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

  Russell Lynes

  Sympathy, Real, Heart

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• I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Friendship, Children, Believe

  "Bill Clinton backs gay marriage bill" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. May 05, 2011.

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• The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Home, Reality, Vivid

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• New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

  Anderson Cooper

  Real, Moving, Estates

  "Surviving the real estate game" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. August 2005.

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• Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, Pain, Real

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

  Brian Setzer

  Player, Guitar, Jazz

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• You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

  Colson Whitehead

  Real

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, p.4, Anchor

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• Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Oxygen, Never Forget, Monopoly

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• I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

  David Sedaris

  Calling, Uncomfortable, Okay

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• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, People, Three

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