”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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