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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
New York

"In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous."

Thinking Country New York
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Mario Video Game Character
New York

"A universal sound is about having everybody be able to relate to it whether you're in New York, LA, London or Australia. You have to be able to universally be brought back to a place where they can relate to you as an artist."

Artist New York Australia
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Leon Trotsky Revolutionary, Politician
New York

"In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932)."

Book New York Chinese Revolution
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James Keller Inventor, Humanitarian
New York

"The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach."

Children Love New York
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
New York

"Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is "unexplored land," to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places."

New York Land Ambition
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
New York

"You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York.... Everything there disappoints me but the crowd; rather, I was disappointed with the rest before I came. I have no eyes for their churches, and what else they find to brag of. Though I know but little about Boston, yet what attracts me, in a quiet way, seems much meaner and more pretending than there,--libraries, pictures, and faces in the street. You don't know where any respectability inhabits."

Eye New York Boston
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
New York

"My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American."

New York
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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
New York

"Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff."

Morning New York Optimistic
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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
New York

"I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else."

Thinking New York Touring
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Lewis Schiff Businessman
New York

"I got to carve through the streets of New York's financial district and discover the awesome feeling of being part of a system where, the harder you worked, the more of those scarce resources you earned! I never looked back."

Feelings New York Financial
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Lewis Thomas Physician, Author
New York

"Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack."

Inspirational New York Dance
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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
New York

"When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up."

Feelings Knows New York
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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
New York

"Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine."

World Cities New York
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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
New York

"What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience."

Doe New York Sound
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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
New York

"I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on."

Cities New York Media
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
New York

"The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted."

Long New York Paper
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
New York

"I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race."

Race New York Lonely
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