New York Quotes
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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.
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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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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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.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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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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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.
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I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
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When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
