“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.” CitiesFrontsNew YorkExampleBirdTraditionTrainNew York CityThanksgivingFrozenTurkeysNew YorkersSubwayThanksgiving Turkey Author:David Letterman
“Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.” WayYearsStatesRealityRunningJusticeUnitedRaceUnited StatesHellCarNew YorkExampleMoonProveBallsSpeedIllegalLos AngelesDriversEstablishmentAutomobileHigh SpeedRumbleTruth And JusticeInterstate Author:Brock Yates
“I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.” TwoCareAbleJesusCitiesBoysWorryFailingNew YorkExampleMetsNew York CityApartmentPersonal RelationshipsNannies Author:Kim Alexis
“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.” MenWorldHardNew YorkExampleMouthsUniversalSellsInstinctPrimeConspiracyUrbanEyebrowsHerdsBirthrightPavement Book:1949-1959 Source: 1949-1959
“Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.” IfsChildrenSchoolIssuesNew YorkExampleDiseaseOur ChildrenIllYour ChildrenVaccinesContagiousPublic HealthVaccinationsHealth IssuesInfluenzaSchoolmates Author:Michael Specter
“I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can't stop us.” PeopleWorldWantCountryNew YorkExampleTerrorism Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.” ArtPassionWaitingModernNew YorkExampleFoundationContemporaryLos AngelesMuseumsContemporary ArtLouis Vuitton Author:Delphine Arnault
“A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.” KindMayMoralAchieveNew YorkExampleVictoryMetsSeasonsAthleteHeroicGood ExamplesProfessional AthleteMoral Victory Author:David Brooks
“As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.” IfsWantWellsBookMightHappensArtistSufferingNamesFeltBlackCareersNew YorkExampleMusicianJournalistReviewsHistorianQualifiedNew York TimesTenureWacky Author:James McBride
“It's nice to be able to be whoever you want to be. I moved to New York for that reason. I think I am a very good example of how you really can do whatever you want to do without having any kind of prerequisite experience of any of kind of connection. None of my family members came from this world.” ThinkingWorldWantKindReasonAbleCan DoNiceNew YorkExampleThis WorldMembersMy FamilyConnectionsMovedVery GoodFamily MembersGood ExamplesPrerequisitesDo Whatever You Want Author:Jason Wu
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster
“A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that."” PeopleIfsYearsI CanJobsPassionRealizingCitiesNew YorkExamplePursueMiserableExpensiveNew York CitySomewhere ElseMy Passion Author:Tony Hsieh