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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Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?
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I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.
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This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer, and is as much affected by outward causes.
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The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
