Ed Koch Quotes
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
