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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.
- Magazine
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
- Admirers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were admirers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. Their parents and most of our relatives and neighbors were Republicans, so they were self-conscious in their liberalism and took it as emblematic of their ability to think for themselves.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020