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Ed Koch Inspirational Quotes (50)

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.
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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I want to come back as me.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues he also could end up going to jail.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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