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“New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.”

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Author:Isaac Stern

“If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point — if you didn’t believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves around than any other city in the world.”

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Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book

Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book

“New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.”

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Author:David Letterman

“If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.”

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Author:Lenny Bruce

“it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.”

Source: How Writing Is Written

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.”

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Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I love New York ... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.”

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Author:Hugh Jackman

“New York is the best food city in the world.”

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Author:Joe Bastianich

“When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.”

“New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.”

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Author:Zephyr Teachout