New York Quotes — Page 28

Novelist, Playwright

“In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.”

Stars New York Ocean

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Joseph Campbell

Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

“If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.”

Mean Want New York

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JS

Judith Stone

Artist

“In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.”

New York Women

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KD

Kristin Davis

Actress

“I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.”

New York Poor

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JN

Judd Nelson

Actor

“I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler”

Years School New York

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Jean Baudrillard

Philosopher, Sociologist

“It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.”

Dream New York Hygiene

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'”

Stars Dark New York

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Michael Lewis

Author, Journalist

“He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.”

Hands New York God

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KW

Kit Williams

Author and Illustrator

“The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.”

Home New York Knowing

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Kurt Vonnegut

Novelist, Satirist

“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.”

Cities New York Zero

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Kurt Vonnegut

Novelist, Satirist

“We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

Past New York Car

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Abbey Lincoln

Jazz Singer, Actress

“I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.”

New York Music Unhappy

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