148 Manhattan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. Walt Disney

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It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no idea what my teacher's intentions were - whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip. Jay-Z

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Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done. Peter Thiel

You Find Restaurant Something Bother Get Done Manhattan Starting

I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive. Adam Ferrara

You Car Between Because Expensive Manhattan Apartment Choose

I watch college basketball and sports in general. I'm also a runner. I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near Central Park, so I try to squeeze in runs through Central Park when I can. Adam Silver

Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's. Alan Stern

Earth Atmosphere Pluto Miami Than Manhattan Bigger Far Across

It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes! Alexander Payne

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom. Allan Gurganus

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In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'. Alvaro Enrigue

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I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown. Ana Ortiz

City Born New York New York New York City Manhattan Raised

I get stopped by people on the Upper West Side of Manhattan - actors, directors, people that I revere - who are closet conservatives who feel the same way but can't speak out. And they think I am fighting for them so they can come out of the closet eventually and express themselves without worrying about losing their jobs. Andrew Breitbart

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What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. Andrew Cuomo

Made Engineering Marvel Underground Manhattan Infrastructure

I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself. Andrew Yang

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I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan. Andrew Zimmern

Building Lost Sullivan Months Became Manhattan Apartment Lower Homeless Street

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression. Andy Behrman

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I live in New York City, and one day many years ago I was with a poet, Gregory Corso, walking through Greenwich Village. He pointed to a doorway in an alley that he said led to a tunnel under Manhattan, a tunnel he'd use to run from the cops. I started learning about old Prohibition-era speakeasy tunnels under the city, for running whiskey. Ann Nocenti

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To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung. Annie Jacobsen

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At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk. Anthony Marra

Government TV Propaganda Journalism Between Line Often Manhattan

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful. Barry Ritholtz

Work City Rather How Where Manhattan Your Awful

My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore. Billy Crystal

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Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.' Brian Grazer

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Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues. Cathleen Schine

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I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston. Charlie Puth

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