“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.” PersonsHappensAmericaFightingEvilLinesCitiesNew YorkPicksFortuneBillionsLikesGood And EvilNew York CityMayorsStarks Author:Jeff Goodell
“I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world. Or in Louis Armstrong's world. Or in the world of the New York Knicks. Because it's not this world. You spend your whole life searching for a way out. You just get an overdose of reality, you know, and it's a terrible thing. I'm always fighting against reality.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWholeRealityFightingFeltToo MuchNew YorkThis WorldTerribleWhole LifeTerrible ThingsArmstrongOverdoseBergmanKnicksAlways Fighting Author:Woody Allen
“You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.” NeedsFightingNew YorkBattleLike MeFighterPostsNew York Times Author:Al Goldstein
“Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.” PeopleTryingMayLongDreamFightingDoubtFailingAchieveNew YorkPromiseObstaclesDenyOpponentsCriticizeI PromiseMayorsConfronting Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.” MomentsFightingRealizingMoralNew YorkChangedMajorityAmerican PoliticsNew York TimesTimes Have Changed Author:William A. Rusher
“I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.” BelieveLittlesLongMadeKidsGuyHateFightingLevelsCitiesFantasyFeetCrimeNew YorkEarsI HateHatedNew York CityBatsSuperheroLittle KidGorillasTights Author:Stephen R. Bissette
“I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.” KindRealArtistFightingJusticeCitiesNew YorkStrangeAffairNew York CityEstatesRetreatLove Affair Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.” IfsHeartEndsStatesUsedFightingUnitedUnited StatesHavensNew YorkIncludingDefenseAggressionRockets Author:Che Guevara
“As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.” LooksArtKidsBeautifulYoungFightingFunStyleNew YorkBattleMartial ArtsGang1960sBreakdancing Author:Jose Parla
“I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.” KnowsCountryFightingCitiesNew YorkHighestAreasRemainsTerrorismFundNew York CityUrbanDensityMunicipalityUrban AreasFighting Terrorism Author:Jose Serrano
“There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which is always "Chinese cop comes to New York, teams up with racist cop, together they fight crime..."” WantShowsTogetherFightingTeamCrimeNew YorkCoupleContemporaryChineseRacistCop Author:Miles Millar
“The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.” WorldBookFeelingsFightingNew YorkReviewsRelevantShut UpNew York Times Author:James Purdy
“I was also thinking that I only had a certain amount of time to make music and to spend it in that city. And everybody else... you know the story 'Oh, New York it's such a great place, but it's so expensive to live here and there's so much to do.' You go there for inspiration and you end up getting a job to pay bills. I thought I must fight that at all costs.” ThinkingKnowsEndsStoriesInspirationJobsCertainFightingPayCitiesNew YorkAmountCostBillsExpensiveHere And There Author:Roy Montgomery
“I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.” ThinkingMenNeedsCountryFightingInterestNew YorkMen And WomenWorking Man Author:Ted Cruz
“Initially the papers said that the fact that Louis Brandeis was picked because he was Jewish. The New York Sun said he's the first Jew ever picked for the bench - a long and bitter fight expected in the Senate over confirmation.” FirstsLongSaidFactsFightingSunNew YorkPaperJewExpectedBitterSenatePapersBenchesConfirmationLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen