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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Ed Koch

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Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
Film Critic
Former United States Representative
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The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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