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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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
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What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.
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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
