John Catsimatidis Quotes
New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
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My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.
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I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
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You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.
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In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.
