Quotes with york-based

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  • Bryan Ferry In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Samuel Huntington In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p.321
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Brit Hume In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Carl Paladino In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bill Clinton In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Simon Hoggart In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
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  • Barney Frank Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Margaret Mead It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Agatha Christie It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Brooke Shields It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bill Condon It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Billy Graham 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.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ben Horowitz John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Rollo May Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Al Capp Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Bill Burr Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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