Ed Koch Quotes
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
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Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.
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I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
