Ed Koch Quotes

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

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• I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me

• All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Health
  • Suffering

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Impact

• When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Power
  • Single
  • Year

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Home
  • Community

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Me

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

  

  Charles Scribner, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Reading

• One of the real benefits of any travel is gaining some perspective. You see things from different points of view. That came home to me in a variety of ways: politically, economically, seeing what was going on in other states.

  

  Angus King
  • Different
  • Real
  • Home

• I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Life
  • Country
  • Food

• Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Party

• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Law
  • City