Ed Koch Quotes
I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.
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My goal is to be the tough negotiator but... not to air differences through press releases.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
