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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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 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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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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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 love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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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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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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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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