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“New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.”

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Author:Gloria Naylor

“An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.”

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Book:The Prince of Tides: A Novel

Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel

“Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.”

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Book:Andy Warhol, Priest:

Source: Andy Warhol, Priest:

“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“New York is not a city to return to in defeat.”

Cities New York Return Defeat

Book:act one

Source: act one

“No other American city is so intensely American as New York.”

Cities New York American Cities

Book:North America

Source: North America

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

World Cities New York Broken Broken Down Cities In The World

Author:Isaac Stern

“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.”

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Author:Bill Geist

“I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.”

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Author:Frank Miller

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.”

Thinking Cities New York Comfort Comfortable Skins New York City Comfortable In Your Own Skin

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“Delta's plan to upgrade JFK facilities will improve our customers' travel experience and make it more efficient and enjoyable to travel through one of the world's premier international gateways. Our customers should make no mistake that Delta is committed to New York and that this summer's expansion at JFK is an important step in offering enhanced service to customers in most every direction we serve from New York City.”

“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

“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.”

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Author:David Letterman

“There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.”

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Author:David Letterman

“It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.”

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Author:David Letterman

“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

“Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.”

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Book:Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service

Source: Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service

“Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS?”

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Author:David Letterman

“Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey taxi." Two is "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdales?" And three is "Don't worry, it's only a flesh wound.”

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Author:David Letterman

“This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.”

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Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book

Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book

“Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".”

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Author:Will Rogers

“A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.”

Cities New York Gun Possession These Days Pockets Priests New York City Arrested

Author:David Letterman

“I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited. I found what I thought at the time was a very rare seashell. And I took it to a friend of mine who works in a museum. And I was really disappointed. It turned out to be just a human ear.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.”

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Author:William Shatner

“I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very simple. I've found it most simple here in New York. You know, it's basically I have a, in a way, a 9-to-5 job, you know? I do eight shows a week. I live in New York City. I get to walk everywhere, and you know, just be one of the people of the city. And it's actually wonderful.”

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Author:Bradley Cooper

“What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“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.”

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Author:Jeff Goodell

“It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.”

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Author:Victoria Moran

“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.”

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Author:Dhani Jones

“This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.”

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Author:Ryan Sheckler

“Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!”

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Book:A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

Source: A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

“In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit.”

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Author:Isser Harel

“Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.”

Source: The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author): From the American writer, a master of short stories, known for The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The Cop and the Anthem, Options, Roads of Destiny, The Four Million…

“New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?”

Cities New York Internet Train Speed New York City Subway Getting High High Speed

Author:David Letterman

“New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.”

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Author:David Letterman

“There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.”

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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

“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.”

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Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?”

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs.”

Believe I Believe Cities Special New York Police Department Iran New York City Units Mobile Surveillance Taxi Iranian Cab Police Department Taxi Cabs

Author:Jay Leno

“I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.”

Home Wish Cities Gone New York Clothes Winter New York City Going Home Coldness

Book:Lyrics 1964 - 2011

Source: Lyrics 1964 - 2011