- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.
- Ghraib
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020