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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
New York

"I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence."

Running New York Squares
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
New York

"If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and a long list of others to bomb Washington and New York, then it’s wrong for Rumsfeld to bomb Afghanistan (on much flimsier pretexts), and he should be brought before war crimes trials."

Long War New York
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Carole King Singer-songwriter
New York

"I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film."

Art School New York
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Bill Lee Unknown
New York

"You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees."

Sports Team New York
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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
New York

"Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did."

Artist New York Jigsaw Puzzles
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Lana Del Rey Singer-Songwriter
New York

"My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too."

Believe New York Understanding
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
New York

"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream."

Real Dream New York
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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
New York

"In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?"

Self New York Leaving
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
New York

"The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags."

Cities New York Sky
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May Sarton Poet
New York

"If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York."

New York Sweet Paris
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Liz Murray Author and Speaker
New York

"I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway."

Sleep House New York
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Liz Murray Author and Speaker
New York

"If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together."

Kids Space New York
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Barack Obama Politician
New York

"It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless."

Believe Children New York
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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
New York

"I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun."

Men New York Summer
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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
New York

"It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism."

Years New York Secret
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New York

"But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act."

Use Successful New York
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