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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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
Bronx
Jewish
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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 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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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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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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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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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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 have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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