Ed Koch Quotes
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.
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No one fulfills himself fully. What is fulfilling oneself? Advancing as one can.
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Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.
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Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
