Barbara Holland Quotes
New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
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I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.
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When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
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I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
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I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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The reason why America was built is so that we would have the ability to choose who we pray to, whether we do or don't.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.
