David Rakoff Quotes

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

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• I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • City
  • Acting
  • Lake

• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Great
  • City
  • Fighting

• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Work
  • City
  • How

• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Great
  • Father
  • City

• What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • City
  • Happen
  • Windows

• It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • City
  • Just
  • Technical

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  

  Patrick White
  • American
  • Success
  • Me

• There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movie
  • City
  • Moments

• I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Girl

• I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • People
  • Great
  • City

• Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.

  

  Sam Graves
  • City
  • Nation
  • Kansas

• New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Home
  • City
  • New York

• San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Home
  • City
  • Evening

• You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Career
  • City
  • Player

• New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Love
  • City
  • Place

• When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Work
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• I'm on my phone 24/7 replying to every Instagram comment and message to try and understand how people are seeing us, and their questions and concerns.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • People

• I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

  

  David Rakoff
  • City