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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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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 wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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 don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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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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