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To learn something new every day is still exciting!

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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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...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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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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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 wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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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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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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 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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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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'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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