“I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."” PeopleYearsRememberSupportNew YorkCoupleOffersStandardsCirclesConventionalChefBad Friend Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.” PeopleKindSchoolFatherSawsNew YorkBandMountainEarsJazzBoringFestivalsChordsGreat MusicCarolinaUneducatedNorth CarolinaTenorsMusic And DanceBanjosJazz BandAsheville Author:Pete Seeger
“There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I don't share that opinion. To me the world is a big place and I try to reach people everywhere. Listen, if I'm nothing else, I feel I've been a man of the people. I'm not going to pretend to be one of those snobby New York theater people.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldFeelsTryingBigsOpinionShareNew YorkRiversTheaterEastTendenciesSnobbyHudson River Author:Frank Wildhorn
“Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the Parks and Recreation characters.” PeopleCharacterLandNew YorkTvsParksCynicalAirplaneParks And Rec Author:Chris Pratt
“I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.” PeopleKnowsKindNew YorkCommunicateEastInteractionBumpsSubwayTorontoCoastersMiniatures Author:Paulo Costanzo
“There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.” PeopleFeelsShouldNew YorkApproachHappeningsShould HaveMirrorsCourtHometown Author:Marv Albert
“New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.” PeopleCrazyNew YorkCrazy People Author:Jamie Bell
“I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindAmericaCenturyNew YorkAreasCatholicWho I AmItalianImpressedUrban20th CenturyDecencyDowntownRoman CatholicItalian AmericanSkid Row Author:Martin Scorsese
“The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar efforts in years have been more thoroughly commendable than the effort to get our people practically to show their appreciation of the beauty and usefulness of trees.” PeopleYearsChildrenHas BeensStatesShowsSchoolEffortTreeNew YorkTenAppreciationUsefulnessCommendableArbor DayNew York StateArbors Author:Andrew S. Draper
“People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.” PeopleSaidCitiesNew YorkCivilizationCaliforniaCivilizedNew York CityFiji Author:Raymond Burr
“In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.” PeopleIfsKindAmericaNew YorkMajorityLazyHustle Author:Kid Cudi
“I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensArtYoungArtistAudienceNew YorkSceneSmartTheaterTheatreHungryMy TimeSupportiveGreat ArtGreat ArtistDowntownReally Smart Author:Jon Bernthal
“Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.” PeopleIfsKnowsMayCharacterNew YorkShooting Author:Robin Williams
“Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.” PeopleWorldFeelsArtStillsUsedEnergyAliveFashionNew YorkHappeningsExcitingDiedFingersUsed To Be80sArt WorldSynergyFashion World Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.” PeopleIfsWayYearsSchoolActorsActingGenerationsNew YorkChangedGeniusYears AgoDeanBrando Author:Martin Sheen
“People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.” PeopleFoundParentCitiesCasesGrowing UpGrowingDogNew YorkAssumingNew York City Author:Jill Abramson
“The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.” PeopleWorldHappenedNew YorkChangedChanging The WorldShockSeptemberSpectacularSeptember 11GrimPennsylvaniaSeptember 11 2001 Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?'” PeopleYoungWhiteDoubtNew YorkFemaleAgingMalesNew York Times Author:Dennis Prager
“People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.” PeopleWorldWantDifferentNew YorkScenePhiladelphiaVisibilityWorlds Apart Author:John Gutfreund
“I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.” PeopleThinkingHomeSeeingStyleNew YorkInspiredLeavingBack HomeDetroit Author:Danny Brown
“Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.” PeopleHomeClearPiecesModernNew YorkThousandTravelHundredPrisonEightPreservesAbandonMuseumsTowersBostonSoapWhiskeyPostersPittsburgh Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.” PeopleMindMayUnderstandingPayLeaderAtheismNew YorkBoxesPositive AtheismContraryInsaneHelpfulCowardCowardiceSeptemberTelephonesClicheSeptember 11SuitableAtrocitiesMindless Author:Richard Dawkins
“I go and I keep friends with [Abe] Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort, you know. And all - I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsMeanCountryKnow HowNew YorkMinesCircumstancesJewIsraelScaryHandleFriendlyNew York TimesGreat FriendSwarmsAbe Author:Billy Graham
“One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.” PeopleCommunityWonderfulNew YorkBroadwayDeafDeafness Author:Camryn Manheim
“A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.” PeopleDoneChristianReligiousCitiesStudyNew YorkPercentClaimsUniversityJew Author:William Bennett
“Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.” PeopleKnowsWantEnoughNew YorkUnhappyDo You Know Author:Dorothy Gish
“Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.” PeopleCultureNew YorkVariousCelebrateJapanAsiaTokyo Author:Pharrell Williams
“I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their friends are and where their work is. That's why you have people who have lived in New York for like 20, 30 years who don't speak English. They just live in a Chinese community or an Indian community. More than anywhere you'll find that in Queens.” PeopleYearsLongAmericaSpeakParentCommunityNew YorkChineseIndianQueensIslandsHanging OutJust LiveSpeak EnglishLong IslandRadius Author:Himanshu Suri
“In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!” PeopleMadeThreeFourNew YorkPaperCrepes Author:Conan O'Brien
“New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.” PeopleNew YorkLoversLondonNow And Then Author:Carolyn Heilbrun
“To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.” PeopleThinkingWellsNew YorkInsightListsComedianSurprisingNew York TimesSellersBest SellersStand Up Comedian Author:Steve Harvey
“That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.” PeopleSeemsUsedCrazyNew YorkUsed To BeTherapyPsychiatry Author:Judith Perelman Rossner
“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
“What's exciting about the Bay Area, is that people are not waiting for permission from the industry to make movies - unlike Los Angeles or New York, where you can get stuck into that desire of raising a big budget, or working with the studios.” PeopleBigsDesireWaitingNew YorkIndustryAreasExcitingStudiosStuckBudgetsLos AngelesPermissionBay Area Author:Matthew Jacobs
“I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.” PeopleEyeMovingCitiesNew YorkCollegeEnviousJadedWarholNew Eyes Author:Lola Kirke
“I would love to [do theater], but there are go-to girls for theater. I am learning that, upon moving to New York and inquiring. There are go-to girls that will get the role any day of the week. It's true. Some people won't even let me audition.” PeopleMovingGirlRolesWeekNew YorkLet MeTheaterAuditionsInquiringDays Of The Week Author:Jeff Daniels
“Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities here. They see that rents are relatively cheap compared to places like New York and California.” PeopleWorldWantDifferentYoungNew YorkPossibilityCaliforniaDifferent WorldsGentrification Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.” PeopleLooksWantedGivenSpaceCitiesNew YorkBuildingOffersWindowMovedDemocraticShoesTinyDesignerPairsFlashJewelsGlamourDecorationDazzlingI Love New YorkGoodmanChryslerChrysler BuildingBergdorf Goodman Author:Tom Ford
“Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingMadeCountryNovelNew YorkFamiliarCoke Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King
“It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.” PeopleRunningCoursesCitiesCareersComedyFourHavensNew YorkLos AngelesBostonSan Francisco Author:Marc Maron
“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsKindCasesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleStreetsFrontsNew YorkStrangeWalkingHorrorToughMuseumsRidingSubway Author:Christopher Walken
“Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would we bother with taxis? I contend that even if you need a taxi once a year - there are times when you need a taxi.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsSeemsMightGivenNew YorkProfoundLuxuryBotherItemsDisabledTaxiLuxury Items Author:Simi Linton
“When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.” PeopleWantedNew YorkIronyWeird People Author:John Waters
“I hate sandwiches at New York delis. Too much meat on the sandwich. It's like a cow with a cracker on either side. "Would you like anything else with the pastrami sandwich?" "Yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people!"” PeopleHumorFunnyPastHateSidesToo MuchNew YorkI HateYeahBreadMeatCowsSandwichesCrackersPastrami Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I actually like south Florida. I never lived in a more interesting place than this. I've never met a wider range of people. I guess when I came here I thought there were Cubans and then there were people from New York and that was Miami. Now I know that it's Cubans, people from New York, and some people from New Jersey.” PeopleKnowsInterestingNew YorkMetsSouthRangeFloridaJerseyNew JerseyMiamiCubanInteresting PlacesSouth Florida Author:Dave Barry
“I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.” PeopleIfsRealizingNew YorkAmountLibraryBranchesHomelessPublic LibraryHomeless People Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!” PeopleKnowsMenFactsHumorFunnyNew YorkYeahVietnamImpressSleevesBadges Author:Denis Leary
“A lot of people think that Jesus is coming back. That's fine, it's your right. But you know, I live in New York, and I think he's running a little late. I'm asking myself, 'Alright, what happens if Jesus comes back tomorrow? What - does he make rounds to churches?' 'OK, everyone who's been good, buses leave in 10 minutes. I'll meet you in front of the post office. I gotta go. Oh, don't tell the Jews I'm back.'” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLittlesDoeHumorHappensRunningFunnyJesusChurchMinutesFrontsNew YorkFineTomorrowOfficeLateAskingRoundsJewPostsBusComing BackAlrightPost OfficeI'm Back Author:Marc Maron
“The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.” PeopleLooksValuesSexResultsNew YorkDrugAreasSafetyCleanDullShopsSquaresUrbanHomelessSuburbsCleanlinessDullnessHomeless PeopleTimes SquareOrderlinessUrban Areas Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindPlayFeelingsRealityFatherOpportunityGrowing UpPathGrowingGenerationsNew YorkSonTownsSouthArtisticPianoAspirationImmigrantsYearningSmall TownJerseyNonconformityBondingDropoutsNexusProvincetown Author:Anne Waldman