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“Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.”

“When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.”

Cities Fans New York Scene Clubs New York City Devoted Good Friend Brooklyn

Author:Lana Del Rey

“No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.”

Ifs Matter Care Cities New York Don't Care Who I Am I Don't Care California New York City Florida Carolina North Carolina

Author:Chris Paul

“When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.”

Running School Winning Cities Teacher New York Track Determined Decades New York City Retiring Runners Marathon Inspirational Running School Teachers Track Runners

Author:Grete Waitz

“In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.”

Women Space Cities New York Ten Suicide New York City Suicidal Storage Storage Space

Author:Judith Stone

“I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City.”

People Cities Missing New York New York City Nightlife

Author:Regina Hall

“Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.”

Cities New York New York City

Author:Therese Anne Fowler

“I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.”

Men Cities New York Listening Experts New York City

Book:The Flamethrowers: A Novel

Source: The Flamethrowers: A Novel

“New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.”

Cities New York Fool Calm Hip Hop Witty Rap Pity Midst New York City Committees

Author:Pharoahe Monch

“I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.”

Thinking May I Can Cities New York Retirement New York City Contemplating Better Place Retired

Author:Robert MacNeil

“Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.”

“I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.”

Knows Able Lost Left Cities Streets New York Terrible Remains Caught Corners New York City Smooth Entrances

Author:Sloane Crosley

“But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.”

Source: Why I Run: The Remarkable Journey of the Ordinary Runner

“I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.”

Thinking Should Mean Has Beens States Mother Cities Streets Advice New York Relation Historical Ships Department New York City Council Delighted Headquarters Foreign Relations

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate clients.”

“I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.”

Thinking Done Levels Cities Security New York Higher Protection New York City Higher Level

Author:Tom Ridge

“New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.”

Stills Hard Cities New York Example New York City Cab

Author:Colson Whitehead

“To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.”

Trying Doe Self Done Remember Cities New York Former Inevitable New York City Courtesy

Author:Colson Whitehead

“New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.”

Heart Beautiful Cities Crazy New York My Heart Dear New York City Dear Friend Close To My Heart

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.”

Jobs Fall Cities Taken New York Equal Population New York City Citibank

Author:Bill Janklow

“I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.”

Seems Cities New York Harder Endure Faster New York City Ballet

Author:Robert Caro

“The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations”

Whole Cities Talking Wonder Generations New York New York City Ballet New Generation Previous Generations

Author:Robert Caro

“The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch.”

“At first we didn't have a lot of access to New York City, but very quickly, I think people recognized if you were on the show that was a good thing. We always saw the show as a love letter to New York City.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Shows Cities Saws New York Letters Good Things Access New York City Love Letter

Author:Josh Schwartz

“Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.”

Thinking Cities Growing Up Growing New York Authority Confused New York City Jingoism

Author:Claire Danes

“In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.”

Cities New York Therapy New York City

Author:Claire Danes

“The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!”

Ifs Heart Cities Enemy Mankind New York Including Nuclear New York City Cuba Missiles Psychotic Extermination Hyenas Nuclear Missiles

Author:Che Guevara

“New York City is my playground.”

Cities New York New York City Playgrounds

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.”

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Author:Oksana Baiul

“New York City is the capital for Baseball, not just for the pros, but also for the kids throughout the city, as well. No matter who you root for, the Borough Cup is going to make every kid and community that participates a winner.”

Wells Matter Kids Community Cities New York Roots Baseball Cups Winner New York City

Author:Mark Teixeira

“And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.”

Play School Cities Economy Team New York Cups Tennis New York City Captains Juniors Tennis Team

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Sports Levels Cities Talking Team New York Creation Optimism Recovery New York City

Author:Jonathan Mahler

“If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.”

Ifs Moving Cities New York Smart Moved London New York City Asia

Author:Jim Rogers

“When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.”

People Kind Cities New York Seven Hips New York City Piercings Wacky

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just shrunk up - unevenly I might add - and eventually turned into wine-cork nubs. Then it would be a different story. Then men would get the pity that they deserve. As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast cancer only worse, because almost everyone gets it. True, it's not life threatening. Just social-life threatening. But in New York City, there is no difference.”

“Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.”

Firsts Individual Deals Cities Conditions New York Drug Behavior Method Convinced New York City Addict Alcoholics Drug Addict Juvenile Delinquents

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?”

Source: Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition

“I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.”

People Made Fun Felt Cities New York Drink Musician Dancing Smile Clubs Having Fun Sat New York City Sipping

Author:Ray Conniff

“I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.”

World Feels Cities New York New York City Cities In The World

Author:Gabriel Macht

“Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.”

Ifs Cities Millions New York Police New York City Officers Vacation New Yorkers Police Officer

Author:Vito Fossella

“There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.”

Ifs Feels States Facts Causes Cities New York Building Empires New York City Pennies Nickels Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Taylor Hanson

“Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'”

Sometimes Feelings Home Reading Cities New York Bother New York City Encyclopedia Why Bother Encyclopedia Britannica

Author:Paul Desmond

“I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.”

Want Light Cities New York Athlete New York City City Walls

Author:Victor Cruz

“New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.”

Home Cities New York Hotel New York City Apartment

Author:Glenway Wescott

“New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.”

Moments Might Chance Cities New York Filled New York City Changing Your Life Quirky Collision

Author:Hope Edelman

“The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.”

Life Forget Cities Alive New York Live Life Dancer Remarkable New York City Ballet

Author:John Guare

“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft”

Hard Cities New York California New York City Sunscreen Wear Sunscreen Northern California

Book:The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

“There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.”

Thinking Bigs Three Cities Five Four New York New York City Publishers Eleven Think Big

Author:Dan DeCarlo

“I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.”

People Want Cities New York Mets Planes Los Angeles New York City Auditions Aeroplanes

Author:Ed O'Neill

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