“I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.” MotivationPsychologyMagicNew YorkPerceptionRootsUniversityProfessorsDreadExistentialThesis Book:An American Dream: A Novel Source: An American Dream: A Novel
“If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.” PeopleIfsThinkingNew YorkApproachUniversityConsistently Author:Larry Wall
“The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: 'When people like myself say American values must be emulated and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'” PeopleHomeAmericaFacesValuesTeachingNew YorkArgumentUniversityTrialsThoughtfulThrownScholarBostonNew York TimesBack HomeImprisonmentColumnistsHamiltonAmerican ValuesBoston University Author:Husain Haqqani
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.” SuccessLeftBusinessKnowledgeNew YorkBandLimitsSelf ImprovementUniversityAverageBusiness SuccessMusic Business Author:Alan Greenspan
“There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.” WarUseEvilMoralOne ThingModernNew YorkStudentsColdUniversityLiberalismGraduatesCold WarConfrontingColumbiaGraduate StudentsColumbia UniversityModern Liberalism Author:Dennis Prager
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.” WritingArtTwoImportantBookAbleLastsArtistCultureLiteraturePoliticsLeftKnownNew YorkProduceMajorsConnectionsTownsUniversityAccessObsessedReviewsPublishingAmerican CultureManhattanPhilipVanguardBook ReviewJoe Mccarthy Book:God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays
“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
“If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the network evening news, universities, church bureaucracies, the New York Times, or the Washington Post. Institutions that are overwhelmingly left-liberal will continue to misinform the public and distort public discourse.” IfsLittlesChristianHouseLeftChurchReligiousWhiteNew YorkNewsHollywoodInstitutionsUniversityCongressEveningPostsWhite HouseDiscourseBureaucracyNew York TimesPublic Discourse Author:Robert Bork
“Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.” TwoChallengesNew YorkBuildingProudProjectsUniversityTallHousingTall Buildings Author:I. M. Pei
“I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky.” YearsKidsAgeJobsYoungLeftNew YorkLuckyBlessedUniversityMaking MoneyAgencyThank GodYoung AgeModelingGeorgiaWaitress Author:Kim Basinger
“I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.” YearsBookNew YorkCollegeDegreesBasesUniversityHuntersAnother YearPlaces I've Been Author:Grace Paley
“Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.” YearsWellsStatesTodaySchoolCitiesClassMillionsEconomyNew YorkCollegeHigherYears AgoUniversitySakeCaliforniaFiftyWorking ClassAffordableHigher EducationTuitionGreat Schools Author:Bernie Sanders
“Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz opened up a new line of attack on Donald Trump, targeting his involvement in Trump University, a for-profit, non-licensed now defunct institution which triggered lawsuits from individuals who claimed they were defrauded by him, as well as a suit alleging fraud from New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman.” WellsIndividualLinesNew YorkTrumpInstitutionsUniversityProfitSuitsFraudInvolvementAttorneyEricCruzMarcosLawsuit Author:Chris Hayes
“I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.” YearsTwoParentNew YorkMetsMovedRaisedUniversityFamiliarTwo YearsSouthernMississippiRio Author:Fred Armisen
“I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.” YearsKindArtStillsLeftCompanyStudyTeachingNew YorkInvolvedTheaterUniversityAll KindsParisMinnesotaMimeSoho Author:Jessica Lange