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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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Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
Film Critic
Former United States Representative
Judge
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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I want to come back as me.
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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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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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