Larry Gelbart Quotes

A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

Larry Gelbart

• New York
• Crowds
• Rains
• Doorways

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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.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Best
  • New
  • New York

• I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • College
  • Acting
  • New York

• I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pay
  • Discussion
  • Fairness

• Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Experience
  • Career
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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.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • New
  • New York
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• America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Believe
  • America
  • New York

• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Mind
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• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• 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
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• 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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • New
  • New York
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• In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • New
  • New York

• 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.'

  

  Gallant
  • City
  • New York
  • Prison

• New York is a fantastic city.

  

  Marat Safin
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Awesome
  • Crowds
  • Milwaukee

• I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Help
  • Win
  • New York

• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • America
  • City

• I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fly
  • New
  • New York

• I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Running
  • City
  • New

• In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Evil
  • Eye
  • New

• It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Small

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • New York
  • Crowds
  • Rains