Ed Koch Quotes
I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.
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I sought trains; I found passengers.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
