Gallant Quotes

When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

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• Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Experience
  • Career
  • New York

• I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.

  

  Patina Miller
  • City
  • Sister
  • Busy

• I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Distance
  • New York
  • Farm

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Love
  • New York
  • London

• People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • New
  • New York
  • Suburbs

• Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Famous

• Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Energy
  • City
  • Inspiration

• The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • New
  • New York
  • Africa

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Done
  • City
  • Garden

• 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

• Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Romantic
  • New
  • New York

• You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Night
  • City

• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Me
  • Model
  • New York

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Today
  • Political
  • City

• One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Time
  • Meetings

• Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.

  

  Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Present

• People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Sources

• I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Career
  • Eye

• When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

  

  Gallant
  • City
  • New York
  • Prison