Ed Koch Quotes

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

Ed Koch

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Author Biography

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

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The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

Jo Nesbo

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I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.

John Shelby Spong

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The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.

Trey Gowdy

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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Lord Byron

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Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.

Julia Glass

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Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

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Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.

Debra Granik

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New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else.

Brian Skerry

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I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

Richard LaGravenese

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The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

Richard Marx

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The intelligence community agrees 30 percent of the terrorists released from Guantanamo are known or suspected to have already re-joined the fight against Americans_- a statistic that translates to a horrific reality.

Mark Kirk

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