Quotes About New York

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

Were you sad to leave Cambridge?" I asked her. She was, she said. Very sad. But she was also looking forward to being back in New York. "The world is complicated," she added. "You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, a young writer originally from Boston who was now living and teaching in New York. Man Gone Down is another big, ambitious novel—about race, the American Dream, fatherhood, money, and love.

The U.S. is the world leader in life sciences technology. In Cambridge, New York, San Francisco, and around the country, there is significant innovation happening in this area, which is leading to much-needed new therapies and new ways to treat disease.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

I was surprised that anyone can have a pistol here, if he wants it. In New York, having a pistol is one of the worst things you can possibly do." "You have to have a permit," said Emory. "That is, everybody but the crook that shoots you has to have one. Now, we're more civilized in this state; we believe in giving the victim a chance, too.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

1996) The Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion and Renewal. New York: Addison-Wesley.

had thought, "can easily be an isolationist in an era when you can cross the Atlantic between lunch and dinner and when the atomic bomb can make mincemeat of an ideology. Chicago is as near Moscow as New York. Foreign policy is, or at least should be, as much a matter

The management of the New York fiscal crisis pioneered the way for neoliberal practices both domestically under Reagan and internationally through the IMF in the 1980s. It established the principle that in the event of a conflict between the integrity of financial institutions and bondholders' returns, on the one hand, and the well-being of the citizens on the other, the former was to be privileged.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.