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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.

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
Judge
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
Primitive
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Action
Strategist
Foresight

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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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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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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 intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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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 have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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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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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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Tone can be as important as text.
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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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