3,292 Quotes About New-york

  • Author Claes Oldenburg
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    Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

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  • Author Claes Oldenburg
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    I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.

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  • Author Claes Oldenburg
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    I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

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  • Author Claes Oldenburg
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    I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

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  • Author Conan O'Brien
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    Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.

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  • Author Claes Oldenburg
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    I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."

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  • Author Conan O'Brien
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    The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.

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  • Author Conor Oberst
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    Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

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  • Author Conan O'Brien
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    In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

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