Ed Koch Quotes
The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.
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I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
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I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
