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Ed Koch Quotes

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

Ed Koch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Home Age Happy People Think Army

In my heart of hearts, I don't think it's a good position to say that Guantanamo is not an acceptable answer for anyone we might capture now or in the future.

Michael Hayden

Good Future Heart Think Say Capture

I'd say, for me, it's cooking that gives me a space beyond music. I love food. And somehow, music and food go together so well. Cooking is very therapeutic. That preparation, the fragrance of spices, the wafting aromas - it just sweeps aside my depression, tiredness and name what you may.

Shreya Ghoshal

Love Music Depression Food Cooking

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.

Roger Daltrey

People Early Career Out Who Part

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Gun Scout Know Say Nothing Hunting

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

Mitch McConnell

Sleep Night Sheep You Trouble Count

My first Weight Watchers meeting was when I was 14 years old on Long Island, and I went there with my mother. I'd gained that adolescent weight and wanted to try out for cheerleading... I lost the weight, tried out, and made the cheerleading team.

Mindy Grossman

Mother Team Long Meeting Lost Try

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

Loretta Young

Wisdom Woman She Follow Charming

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

Jay Griffiths

Just Because Because Make Just Every

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

Colm Meaney

Character You Bad Know Actor Always

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anthony Powell

Process Portrait Anything Going Who

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Me Research Writing Book You Down

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

Ashley Olsen

Love Good Time Mirror Man Me