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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
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The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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 was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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 intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.
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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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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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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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I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues he also could end up going to jail.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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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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