New York Quotes
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The 1984 tax trials, when he appealed his New York state and New York City audits, were about Donald Trump claiming zero revenue for his consulting business and taking over $600,000 of deductions, for which he couldn't produce any documentation, no receipts, no checks, nothing, those two elements, zero income and huge deductions, combined with his own tax guy testifying under oath, that's my signature, but I didn't prepare that tax return, those are very strong badges of fraud.
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.
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I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.
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People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
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In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.
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New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.
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Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
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Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
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I keep saying to myself, 'I'm in New York.' I've heard so much about it. It's big, isn't it?
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I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.
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I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
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I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.
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I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.
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I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York references on it, but I also see it, for us, as the first of our records that really opened up to the larger world around us.
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
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The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.
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I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
