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I want to come back as me.

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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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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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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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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 wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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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 never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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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 don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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