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Ed Koch Quotes

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.

Ed Koch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1924 - February 1, 2013

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Art Poetry People Write Canvas Big

Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn't interact so much.

Andreja Pejic

Life Culture People World Australia

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

Ann Bancroft

Dog Job Push Interesting Run Always

When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

People You Sometimes Difficult Who

One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known.

Lou Barlow

Relationship People Cool Back Pretty

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

Craig Brown

Life Money Equal Sense Tricks

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

Brie Larson

Hero Believe Think End Better You

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

Anne Tyler

Writing Never Write Like Felt Till

A lot of players were going to Europe, but there were always stories of teams not being able to pay, and the players and girls were stuck with no money for airfare to come home. So I got a nice contract from Japan and decided to play there.

Anne Donovan

Home Money Play Nice Pay Europe

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Father Mother Home Beach Childhood

Whenever I start a project, I have a broad range of possibilities.

Shaun Tan

Start Possibilities Project Range

I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store.

Tyler Florence

Dog Think Ignore Long Vegetables

One cost, for the lonely: If you want to be interesting, the one thing you shouldn't do is really focus on the fact that 'I want this person to like me.' That's going to make you very uninteresting. But the lonely, they just can't help but focus on that.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Focus Me Lonely Interesting Help