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“I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.”

Sometimes Half Doors Worst New York Neighborhood

Author:Christopher Bollen

“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.”

Believe Space Cities Half New York Population Hypocritical

Author:Gloria Naylor

“I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!”

Half New York Hysterical

Author:Erin O'Connor

“Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.”

Trying School Christian Order Church Religious Half Atheism New York Positive Atheism Ruins Dogma Public School Christian Church Religious Dogma

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up in his campaign slogan, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cutting violence in half with a laser-guided chain gun across a charred landscape - for the children.'”

Children Helping Goal Half Cutting Violence Week New York Gun Campaigns Chains Landscape Slogans Controversial Schwarzenegger Lasers Helping Children

Author:Jon Stewart

“[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.”

Has Beens Hours Cities Half New York Sitting Coffee Cups Sat Shops New York City Lap Drank Lipstick Coffee Cup Gum Oblivious Coffee Shop Napkins

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.”

Years Half New York Moved Magazines Brown Auditions

Author:David Walton

“I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.”

Years Hard Half New York Goes On

Author:Aziz Ansari

“I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.”

Thinking Years Firsts Different Cities Half Trouble New York

Author:Mickey Rourke

“You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop something off at the dry cleaner, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can bang that out in half an hour.”

Ifs Done Wanted Stuff Hours Half New York Adventure Shoes Dry Los Angeles Milk Bangs Cleaners Dry Cleaners

Author:Justin Theroux

“To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.”

Firsts Wells Two Might Care Hours Cities Half Morning Car New York Limits Waste Starting Don't Care Miles I Don't Care Thirty Wasting Time Starting Out Omaha Commuting

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.”

Years Firsts Ends Country States Government Guy Names Poor Half Century New York Kings Dollars Population Oil Revenue Monarchy Arabia Systems Of Government New York State

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."”

Years Said My Own Half Records New York Selling Evening Phonograph

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.”

Years Two Moving Guy Courses Half Five New York West Five Years Comparison Coast West Coast

Author:Ben Webster

“Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.”

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Half New York

Author:Sherman Alexie

“North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.”

Ifs Stills Hours Half New York Calling Clock Zone Korea North Korea Time Zones

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.”

“I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.”

People Way Grows Stuff Hours Half Growing Up New York Grew Band Grew Up Towns One Way Better Place Small Town Touring Nazareth

Author:Daughn Gibson