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I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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
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Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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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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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