Ed Koch Quotes
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.
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Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.
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I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
