- Nov 07, 2020
City Quotes
Every city leaves its own kind of mark.
Several of these quotes settle on New York specifically - raising children there, chasing a ballet career through its top companies, or building a life around it after moving from elsewhere. Others reflect on falling in love with a campus city the way you'd love Paris. See Cities Quotes for more.
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- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is stick my hair in a ponytail and put on a big sweater, some tights and a pair of sneakers after a week working in the city.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad worked at a mechanical factory for 35 years. I grew up in Union City, NJ. My mother is a social worker. My sister runs a 7-Eleven, and my brother is a detox counselor. They had no predilection for the arts. But from a very young age, I really, really loved theater.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of a cardboard box on the street where we lived in New York City. Great dog. We named her 'Marcella' after a Raggedy Ann character. She grew up with us.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.
- Head Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
- Chief Executive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.
- Commissioner
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.
- Ethos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020