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”New York Quotes”
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Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
David Letterman
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The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.
Philip Hone
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There’s no room for amateurs, even in crossing the streets.
George Segal
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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hid-den in their mattresses.
Duke Ellington
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Broadway is Trade and Vanity made flesh.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is the town that never sleeps. That’s why we don’t live in Duluth. That plus I don’t know where Duluth is.
Woody Allen
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New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
Russell Baker
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New York is like a disco, but without the music.
Elaine Stritch
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If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
Arthur C. Clarke
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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
Murray Kempton
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The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
John Jay Chapman
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No matter how many times I visit this great city, I’m always struck by the same thing: a yellow taxi cab.
Scott Adams
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Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.
Andy Warhol
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New York is an exciting town where so-mething is happening all the time, most of it unsolved.
Johnny Carson
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It’s much better to be a neurotic in New York than in Nashville. There they liked me but they didn’t understand me. Here they like me and understand me.
Stanley Siegel
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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm.
Don Marquis
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One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Thomas Wolfe
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I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.
Madonna
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I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
James Cameron
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A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.
Jackie Mason
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Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
Walt Whitman
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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
Lewis Mumford
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven’t noticed.
Jim Harrison
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
Robert Persig
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New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administra-tive center of American culture.
Saul Bellow
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There is more sophistication and less sen-se in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
Don Herold
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Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
Robert Moses
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NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to cha-os.
Trevor Dunn
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Why, if you are not in New York you are camping out.
Thomas E. Dewey
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Weekdays, New York City’s financial di-strict bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.
Jennifer Dunning
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Living in New York is like being at some ter-rible late-night party. You’re tired, you’ve had a headache since you arrived, but you can’t leave because then you’d miss the party.
Simon Hoggart
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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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They say life’s what happens when you’re busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens when you’re waiting for a table.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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New York now leads the world’s great ci-ties in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move..
David Letterman
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That’s another reason I love New York. Just like that, it can go from bad to cute.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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New York...when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
David Letterman
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