Ed Koch Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.
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One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
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We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
