- People
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- 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
- Opposition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.
- New Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grow old learning something new every day.
- New Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be very shy. I hated going to a new classroom and having to make new friends, meet new teachers, and adjust to a new environment.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've battled my weight since I was 12. My parents took to us to New York once, for a holiday, and there I'd buy fruit loops from a 24x7 shop and sit down with my books. I never played; I wasn't that kind of kid - I just read. I ate chocolates like peanuts. I was 86kg till I was 19.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.
- Golf Ball
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as a crazy dog person in New York. Are there people who are completely insane about their dogs? Hordes. But cat people may as well have whiskers and tails themselves. That's because their pets' lack of social need taps straight into our worst fears as the human inhabitants of New York.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an online shopper, so that's what I do in my free time. A lot of online shopping, and I just like to see new styles and new people.
- Delhi
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New Delhi in 1976.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020