“In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!” PeopleThinkingKindStillsAmericaNew YorkSouthIndianChicagoAsianExoticIndian Food Author:Aasif Mandvi
“I don't know what's going on in America. I know what people in New York and Beverly Hills think about Whole Foods, but I don't know what people anywhere else think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWholeAmericaNew YorkHillsBeverly HillsWhole Foods Author:Ronald Burkle
“It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.” RealSelfCountryAmericaNew YorkTownsSatisfiedBordersSmall TownSmall Countries Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.” MenWorldAmericaTurnsMorningNew YorkBeatsAffairProsperityEnterpriseQuotationsPulseStock ExchangeBorrowersHonoluluNew York StockNew York Stock Exchange Author:Charles A. Beard
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.” PeopleStoriesAmericaReadingNextCitiesWatchesNew YorkConversationTablesTrainNewspapersRestaurantsSubway Author:Bill Geist
“According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.” KnowsHumorCareFunnyAmericaCitiesToo MuchNew YorkBeatsTwentiesDon't CareFifthPlaces To LiveBest PlacePittsburghCaring Too Much Author:David Letterman
“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.” PersonsHappensAmericaFightingEvilLinesCitiesNew YorkPicksFortuneBillionsLikesGood And EvilNew York CityMayorsStarks Author:Jeff Goodell
“I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.” PeopleAmericaCultureCommunityCitiesNew YorkReactionsPassingPassingsNew York CitySquaresPassing ThroughMergingHubTimes Square Author:Dhani Jones
“While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.” ThinkingFeelsI CanHomeAmericaMy OwnCitiesNew YorkIdentityLabelsRejectsNew York CityConstructs Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: 'When people like myself say American values must be emulated and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'” PeopleHomeAmericaFacesValuesTeachingNew YorkArgumentUniversityTrialsThoughtfulThrownScholarBostonNew York TimesBack HomeImprisonmentColumnistsHamiltonAmerican ValuesBoston University Author:Husain Haqqani
“I’ve come in and out of America for… well, I’ve lived here for 15 years. And I’ve played here for nearly 30 years. On and off. But I’ve always played to my fan base. And I can come and do two or three nights in New York or two or three nights in L.A., and all that. But when I go away, nobody knows I’ve been gone. You know, I don’t get reviewed or anything like that. So that’s why I’ve come back and done a longer time in a smaller place, in New York. It’s always the people who live here that get a chance to know me.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsI CanTwoDoneAmericaNightThreeChanceGoneComedyFansNew YorkGoing AwayKnow MeNobody KnowsAnd Off Author:Billy Connolly
“I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.” WorldStillsAmericaEnergyNew YorkParticularIncrediblesPlanesExcitementVisitingLanding Author:Nick Cave
“If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.” IfsThinkingHas BeensAmericaCultureBlackNew YorkRapParisCould Have BeenRap MusicBlack America Author:Ice Cube
“I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .” AmericaMovingCitiesNew YorkReadyTravelEuropeMovedIslandsNew York CityCoast Author:Spalding Gray
“New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.” WorldDoeMatterAmericaSpiritualRaceDoubtInfluenceNew YorkExerciseElementsNo Matter WhatMeetingsChineseNo DoubtDelicateForeignersNorth AmericaArmeniansGreat Influence Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world.” WorldShouldAmericaLeftCitiesLandNew YorkFairsPopulationProportionNew York City Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindAmericaCenturyNew YorkAreasCatholicWho I AmItalianImpressedUrban20th CenturyDecencyDowntownRoman CatholicItalian AmericanSkid Row Author:Martin Scorsese
“In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.” PeopleIfsKindAmericaNew YorkMajorityLazyHustle Author:Kid Cudi