“The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.” ThinkingWayPersonsImportantIdeasNew YorkHairApproachClothesTransformationCleanDesignerMakeupHair And Makeup Author:Jason Wu
“I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.” PeopleThinkingBigsNightCertainRolesNew YorkAmountSceneDrugClubsEcstasyToiletsTaboo Author:Boy George
“As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.” ThinkingStillsWantedRememberCertainCreativeGrowing UpComedyGrowingNew YorkComing OutBe CreativeOrangeCountyAlways ThinkingOrange County Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.” ThinkingWritingLittlesHas BeensUseLanguageNew YorkStandardsFoundationJournalismAccuracyNew York Times Author:Will Leitch
“Museums that aren't perfect are the ones that I love. Museums that aren't overdesigned. I always like to visit the strange, odd museums. In New York, the Frick is absolutely my favorite, favorite place because I like to think that it was someone's home not that long ago.” ThinkingLongHomePerfectNew YorkStrangeMy FavoriteOddMuseumsLong AgoFavorite Places Author:Reed Krakoff
“I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.” ThinkingWorldLittlesMovingActorsBitsNew YorkGrewLittle BitGrew UpAppreciateGood Actors Author:Josh Brolin
“The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.” ThinkingShouldFilmActorsIndividualMillionsIssuesHeardTeamTalentHavensNew YorkOfficeHollywoodThirdsAthleteBoxesRevengeCorporationsOwnersLots Of MoneyYankeesSalaryPenniesZealAlexOutrageNew York YankeesKevinBox OfficePopulistCeltic Author:Linda Chavez
“I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.” ThinkingEnoughHavensNew YorkBonesSymbolsDesertSkullsSymbolismBarrels Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“I love New York ... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayFacesCitiesSupportEnvironmentHonestNew YorkLike YouMy WayYour FaceSlapSupport YouCities In The WorldI Love New York Author:Hugh Jackman
“I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.” ThinkingTryingYearsNiceNew YorkMaterialsBlueBoxesCombinationDirtyRoyal Author:Redd Foxx
“A New York City judge struck down a proposed law to ban sodas larger than 16 ounces. I think Mayor Bloomberg should spend his time trying to improve stuff like education. New York needs a better education system if kids didn't figure out they could get around the 16-ounce soda ban by simply purchasing two 12-ounce sodas.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldTryingTwoKidsLawStuffCitiesFiguresNew YorkJudgingNew York CityBansMayorsEducation SystemSodaPurchasing Author:Craig Ferguson
“Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.” ThinkingGivingTryingKindFacesChallengesCitiesEnemyNew YorkBombsNew York CitySquaresAirplaneDetroitSubwayBreadthTimes Square Author:Eric Holder
“I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I think we all do.” ThinkingPersonsDifferentUsedAirNew York Author:Veena Sud
“[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.” ThinkingWaySpiritFoundNew YorkEastGenerosityCaliforniaEngagedOpennessNew WaysCoastEast CoastGenerosity Of Spirit Author:Eleanor Antin
“Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.” PeopleThinkingMindPersonsCrazyNew YorkPlentyCrazy People Author:Louis C. K.
“I live in New York right now but I'm originally from my daddy's nuts. We all are. Think about, we the lucky ones - we made it. You all are winners. That's the first race you ever won.” ThinkingFirstsMadeRaceNew YorkRight NowLuckyMade ItWinnerNutsDaddy Author:J. B. Smoove
“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.” ThinkingMadeDifferentPlayCharacterRealitySchoolFatherMy OwnFantasyNew YorkBecomingActivityEverydayPhotographNineDocumentsEveryday LifeCostumesDifferent CharactersSchool Plays Author:Mariko Mori
“I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarCitiesHappenedDangerousNew YorkZoneDangerous PlacesWar Zones Author:Alicia Witt
“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
“Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingBookLyingBlackNew YorkHatedAwardsProfessorsGuestsBlack WomenBrooks Author:Ishmael Reed
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsI CanHalfNew York Author:Sherman Alexie
“I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.” PeopleThinkingProblemStrongStuffBlackNew YorkPerceptionArmyComplexesCaughtSuperiorityCaught UpSuperiority ComplexPeruvians Author:Immortal Technique
“Here's some exciting news - according to The New York Post, both Al Gore and John Kerry are thinking of running for president in 2008. Gore and Kerry again! Political experts say it's too early to tell who would lose bigger!” ThinkingRunningPoliticalPresidentLosesNew YorkNewsBiggerExcitingPostsExpertsAlsGoreJohn Kerry Author:Jay Leno
“I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.” ThinkingNew YorkTvsSeriesPersonal ExperiencesTv Series Author:Kyle MacLachlan
“I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.” ThinkingKindPersonsProcessNew YorkFocusedFascinatedExit Author:Patton Oswalt
“I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.” ThinkingNumbersNew YorkCrowdsLatin Author:Ruben Blades
“Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.” ThinkingStepsNew YorkEvery StepDetours Author:Jason Schwartzman
“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
“The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.” ThinkingArtistDifficultNew YorkCriticsHardest Author:Julian Schnabel
“I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.” ThinkingWayShowsSeemsArtistCertainWonderNiceNew YorkPaintingWallSomewhere ElseNice ThingsProvincesSwitzerland Author:Julian Schnabel
“I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.” ThinkingFirstsEndsHappensAbleRememberUsedBrainWorryNew YorkSolitudeWindowPhonesCellsLengthShiftingCell PhoneTaxi Author:Dani Shapiro
“New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.” ThinkingI CanCitiesNew YorkInspiredRemarkable Author:Moby
“I think I can work anywhere, but you don't get the same kind of inspiration everywhere. New York theater has become a big inspiration for me. I only started writing for the stage myself because I like to see the good, mostly off-Broadway plays in New York.” ThinkingWritingKindI CanPlayBigsInspirationStageNew YorkTheaterBroadway Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsWould BeWantedGuyThreeBoysEnvironmentNew YorkGrewReaderGrew UpConnectedLike MeMultipleNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“A "New York Times"/CBS poll found 59 percent of the country didn`t think Sarah Palin was prepare for the job that John McCain had picked her for.” ThinkingCountryJobsFoundNew YorkPercentPollsNew York TimesMccainPalin Author:Rachel Maddow
“I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.” ThinkingFunNew York Author:Victoria Chang
“I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentEndsReadingForceFeltForgetFictionNovelEffectsNew YorkEmotionalFlowerHairSceneShotsDoctorsTrainPatientGoodbyeNever ForgetUnfortunateCowboySaying GoodbyeDinosaursCanyonsCumulativeDifferent ExperiencesChekhovHawthorne Author:Adam Ross
“I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.” ThinkingWayBelieveSaidPlayHomeFatherParentChanceRolesSawsOur LivesWifeNew YorkWalkingMetsPureLuckStoresPostsAutobiographyPublishersWay Home Author:Owen Wilson
“I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.” IfsThinkingDifferentWholeStoriesJoySongEnergySpeakFunOur LivesFailingNew YorkSensualityVulnerabilityDifferent ThingsMoths Author:Caroline Polachek
“I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.” ThinkingSaidWould BeNew York Author:Michelle Stuart
“For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsDifferentStatesNew YorkMovementAppreciateMy FamilyConnectedPartnersPostsShockRemarkableTake TimeIt Takes TimeLike FamilyCounterculture Author:Aaron Brookner
“One of my favorite apps is VSCO, which is for editing photos. I think they have great filters. And then I read the New York Times.” ThinkingNew YorkMy FavoriteEditingNew York TimesFiltersApps Author:Kiernan Shipka
“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
“It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.” ThinkingBookSelfCharacterAnswersFictionCuttingNew YorkPersonalityNeededAddIncludingGenerousExplicitMatchingJuliusConcealing Author:Teju Cole
“I think we've got a number of states coming up that we're going to do extremely well and possibly winning, including California and New York state.So I think we do have a path to victory.” ThinkingWellsStatesWinningNumbersPathNew YorkVictoryIncludingCaliforniaNew York State Author:Bernie Sanders
“Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.” ThinkingYearsLastsSoundDecisionWonderNew YorkPositionHonestlySettingSettingsLast YearJetBulgariaDown Time Author:Sean Mahon
“People are taking a closer look at Donald Trump. I think the best look they got was at the last debate. I think Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio prosecuted their case effectively. Donald doesn't have some great answers. When they talk, for instance, about immigration and releasing those tapes from The New York Times, we began talking about flexibility and immigration.” PeopleThinkingLooksLastsAnswersTalkingCasesNew YorkTrumpDebateImmigrationInstanceTapeFlexibilityNew York TimesCruzMarcos Author:Mitt Romney
“I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so many people's lives, honestly. I was thinking about all the thousands of people that live in Nashville, like myself, that there's no reason a guy from New York would end up down there if it wasn't for the sound of Earl Scruggs' banjo coming over the airwaves and just changing my life.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanEndsReasonGuySoundNew YorkChangedHonestlyLike MeNo ReasonNashvilleChanging My LifeBanjos Author:Earl Scruggs
“And so to dismiss these homegrown terrorists as boobs, which is one of the terms that was used in one of the New York newspapers after the Miami raid, is true now, but to bet on that is I think a sure way to lose your bank account.” ThinkingWayUsedTermLosesNew YorkAccountsTerroristNewspapersMiamiBank AccountsHomegrown Author:Michael Scheuer
“I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.” ThinkingHateNew YorkWalkingI HateTrainWinterDread Author:Frankie Cosmos