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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

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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
Ulcers
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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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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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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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...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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I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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