New York Quotes
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Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.
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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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When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.
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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 didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.
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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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People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
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That's just how things happened. I think in the long run, New York is going to come out on top.
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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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I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.
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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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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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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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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.
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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.
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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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Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City
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I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.
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I'm from New York.
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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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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.
