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Quotes About New York City

It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family's version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.
~ Andrew Cherng
I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.
~ Andre Royo
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
~ Ezra Koenig
I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the energy is just phenomenal. Great crews here. All the technicians, all the artists that work in this industry. I've just been very happy with the body that we've been able to do, especially those films we shot here in New York City.
~ Spike Lee
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
~ Russel Honore
I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.
~ Nick Jonas
Present day—New York City Tequila is the Mexican version of the middle finger, the perfect "fuck you" to someone you either can't kill or haven't
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Well that's New York for ya. The only people who rush the stage are guys.
~ Jim Morrison
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
~ Vin Diesel
I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.
~ Ellen Gilchrist
I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
~ Nancy Pickard
I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from a Midtown food truck, grab empanadas by the dozen in Spanish Harlem or get a fantastic bowl of ramen in the East Village.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
I don't use any real vintage hardware any longer. That's always been the object as far as gaining control of the studio environment, going back to when I built my first studio, Secret Sound, in New York City. The whole point was to not have to pay studio bills anymore and not be looking at the clock.
~ Todd Rundgren
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
~ Gail Collins
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
~ Armistead Maupin
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!
~ Margo Martindale
Et puis aussi, c'était New York, où les gens ne posent pas de questions.
~ Don DeLillo
For a long time, my mother's wasn't dead yet. Mine could have been a more tragic story. My father could have given in to the bottle or the needle or a woman and left my brother and me to care for ourselves - or worse, in the care of New York City Children's Services, where, my father said, there was seldom a happy ending. But this didn't happen. I know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It is the memory.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
We never appreciated our dominie aright till now. But now no one can praise him too highly. The cause of this his sudden rise in public estimation is a very simple one. He has been called to a New York City parish. And he has accepted the call. This is a curious world, and the most curious part of it is the Church. While he stayed we grumbled at him. Now he leaves we grumble because he is going.
~ Lyman Abbott
Underlying such suspicions was the enormous gulf of knowledge and understanding between America's heartland and the East Coast—and in particular the East's financial and cultural hub, New York City.
~ Unknown
Two thousand lawyers in twenty countries, half of them in New York City alone, a thousand right up there packed together on floors 30 through 65.
~ John Grisham
an epidemic so extreme that New York City had required people to obtain passes to travel.
~ John M. Barry