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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.
Ed Koch
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Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
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Former United States Representative
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The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
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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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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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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'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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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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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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