New Yorkers Quotes - Page 9

• As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Mirrors, House, Trying

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• You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

  Rula Jebreal

  Russia, Want, Express Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  People, Different, Firsts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press

  Nat Hentoff

  Chronology, Said, Terrible

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.

  James Purdy

  New York, Rocks, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Marriage Equality, Today, Lifelong

  "Gay Marriage Bill Passes In New York; Governor Cuomo Signs Same Sex Marriage Bill Into Law", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  Sal Albanese

  New York, Party, Independent

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• I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

  William Klein

  Photography, Zero, Believe

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• I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

  Vaginal Davis

  New York, Thinking, California

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never felt more American than I did when I moved to England. It becomes a real kind of part of your identity: "Oh, Ben. He's the American guy." I think when you say you're from New York you get a different reception then if you just say, "I'm American." So I'd always kind of make sure I was a New Yorker first.

  Ben Schnetzer

  New York, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.

  Robert Mankoff

  Cartoon, Records, Months

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.

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• If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Reading, Years

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I've - that I regret. That was stupid and ignorant on my part. I went to a party as a guest of a friend of mine, a lawyer. And he had a client who I didn't know, except - maybe I'm pretending I didn't know, but he was a big investor in The New Yorker. And as I found out later in a book about The New Yorker, this guy was very unhappy about [Bill] Shawn.He thought Shawn was spending out - spending too much money on writers.

  Nat Hentoff

  Regret, Stupid, Party

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• [Bill Shawn] had always been in The New Yorker immaculately dressed - quietly, immaculately dressed, very soft-spoken. On the phone I could hardly hear him sometimes.

  Nat Hentoff

  Phones, Bills, Sometimes

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.

  Nat Hentoff

  Years, Facts, Veteran

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Rewards, Orthodoxy, Rich

  Source: progressive.org

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• Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.

  Edward Said

  Military, Heart, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.

  Kofi Annan

  Agreement, Sea, Play

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dangerous World, People, Tragedy

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• As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

  Sloane Crosley

  Done, Serious, States

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.6, Portobello Books

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• I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

  Ed Koch

  Thinking, Six Months, Said

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• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, New York, Children

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• Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Italian, Cities, Long

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.138, Penguin

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• Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Twilight, Night

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

  Paul Goodman

  Cities, Community, Village

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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