Edmund White Quotes
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
Edmund White
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
Lana Del Rey
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
Jack Adams
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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
Harlan Coben
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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.
Edmund White
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
Ed Koch
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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.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.
Ilan Stavans
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If the plane lost all my luggage, and I was somewhere sunny like Ibiza, I would just get a bikini, shorts, T-shirt, and sandals. If it was somewhere colder like New York, I'd go for jeans, jacket, and a pair of Louboutins.
Kate Moss
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In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.
Eliot Spitzer
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Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
Cathy Guisewite
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Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.
Michel Foucault
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
Edmund White
