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I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'


David Sedaris


#calling #felt #i #like #myself

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.


Lanford Wilson


#events #i #i am #new #new yorkers

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.


Jason Alexander


#avenue #bronx #davidson #grandparents #had

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.


Russell Baker


#calls #closets #cockroaches #couple #grow

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.


Michael Bloomberg


#best part #center #city #forever #hearts

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.


Michael Bloomberg


#agree #also #always #attacked #being

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.


Abel Ferrara


#energy #exists #fact #i #kind

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.


Harold Ford


#adversity #ahead #better #care #days

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.


Vito Fossella


#come #day #every #every single day #hundreds

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.


Phyllis Diller


#argument #bank #been #cab #get






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