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“I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.”

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Author:Junot Diaz

“I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.”

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Author:Vin Diesel

“I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.”

“The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States is alive and well.”

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Author:Chris Hayes

“People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.”

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Author:Robert Anasi

“I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.”

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Author:Bill de Blasio

“I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business.”

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Author:Bill de Blasio

“New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.”

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Book:The Colossus of New York

Source: The Colossus of New York

“All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.”

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Author:John Guare

“And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.”

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Author:John Guare

“However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.”

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Author:John Guare

“I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.”

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Author:John Guare

“Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.”

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Author:John Guare

“I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.”

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Author:John Guare

“I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.”

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Author:John Guare

“Ive been in New York City now for 22 years.”

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Author:Julie Gold

“Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.”

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Author:Philip Morrison

“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.”

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Author:Delia Ephron

“New York is the only real city-city.”

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Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”

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Book:One man's America

Source: One man's America

“The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.”

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Author:Mike Wells

“I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.”

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Author:Joan Didion

“He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.”

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Author:Armistead Maupin

“With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.”

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Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.”

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Author:George Pataki

“I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.”

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Author:Jessica Hagedorn

“There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.”

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Author:Christopher Meloni

“I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.”

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Author:Greta Gerwig

“The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New York City....My cooking facilities were very limited, making it very difficult to prepare cereals. It often occurred to me that it should be possible to purchase cereals at groceries already cooked and ready to eat, and I considered different ways in which this might be done.”

“Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.”

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Author:Linus Pauling

“I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.”

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Author:El Anatsui

“I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.”

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Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.”

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Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”

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Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.”

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Book:Here is New York

Source: Here is New York

“A woman is beautiful when she stands out as an individual—it's a woman who has her own style and the confidence to pull it off. Half the women on the streets in New York City achieve this. I get so inspired every time I'm there.”

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Author:Christina Hendricks

“So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out..There were record breaking temperatures across the, 72 in New York City, 69 in Boston on Saturday. A lot of people wondering is it global warming or something much simpler?”

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Author:Meredith Vieira

“In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.”

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Author:Hoda Kotb

“I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.”

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Author:Alexandra Chando

“You know, when Sharpton and I walked in, it was, like, big commotion and everything, but everybody was very nice. And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was - it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship.”

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Author:Bill O'Reilly

“An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.”

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Author:Howard Cosell

“I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.”

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Author:Debi Mazar

“I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.”

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Author:Gregory Corso

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