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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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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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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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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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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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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 have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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