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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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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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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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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 never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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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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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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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'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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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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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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