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Ed Koch Quotes

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

God Myself Tired People Me Free

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Job Space People Building Generation

When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them.

Time Believe Someone You First Time

Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.

You Know Always Pretty Even Wanted

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.

Family New York Growing Up You Back

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

Hope Creative Suffering Small Start

Always follow good counsels.

Good Follow Always

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

Good Anger Reading Pressure Wrong

Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.

History Time Moment Temptation Apple

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

Christine Quinn

Anger Done Standing Things Being

In any kid's relationship with their parents, there's always an influence there. You always want to do them proud.

Relationship Parents Influence Proud

I did a movie in Esperanto.

William Shatner

There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.

Practice Basketball Talking You Want

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