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  • That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. -- Gore Vidal
  • Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. -- Paul Farmer
  • What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. -- Jurgen Habermas
  • Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. -- Walt Disney
  • I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model. -- Michael Bergin
  • Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. -- Le Corbusier
  • I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids. -- Melissa Joan Hart
  • Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. -- Raymond Sokolov
  • I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat. -- Peter Bart
  • Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. -- Jurgen Habermas
  • Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life. -- Madhuri Dixit
  • I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. -- Ethan Suplee
  • Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. -- David Wilkerson
  • I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. -- Laura Linney
  • Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
  • I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. -- David Byrne
  • There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here -- Daniel Libeskind
  • A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost. -- Moby
  • People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan. -- Toby Young
  • To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words. -- James Bay
  • I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan -- James Van Der Beek
  • I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. -- James Van Der Beek
  • Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic. -- Mariel Hemingway
  • I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that. -- Tina Fey
  • I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice. -- Ellen Burstyn
  • I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity. -- Eddie Huang
  • And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole -- Daniel Libeskind
  • So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker. -- Alma Guillermoprieto
  • But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. -- Jason Alexander
  • Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower. -- Norman Foster
  • I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston. -- Charlie Puth
  • In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. -- Kool Moe Dee
  • Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. -- Tom Hiddleston
  • Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris. -- Anne Robinson
  • Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves. -- Dhani Jones
  • Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. -- Jimmy Breslin
  • A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention. -- Dylan Moran
  • Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
  • Manhattan cabs are born old. -- Jean Shepherd
  • Manhattan is where America began. -- Russell Shorto
  • Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! -- Ed Koch
  • First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin -- Leonard Cohen
  • Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners. -- Janine di Giovanni
  • It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan. -- Baz Luhrmann
  • What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina? -- Jadakiss
  • I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.' -- Mickey Sumner
  • If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, -- Ed Koch
  • I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. -- Laura Linney
  • My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan . -- Kool Moe Dee
  • Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen. -- Rem Koolhaas
  • Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. -- Jonathan Franzen
  • What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. -- Andrew Cuomo
  • I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown. -- Ana Ortiz
  • Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan! -- Walt Whitman
  • Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax. -- Mario Batali
  • I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy. -- Noah Baumbach
  • I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance. -- Val Kilmer
  • The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan. -- Rick Warren
  • You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful. -- Cory Lidle
  • Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me. -- Walt Whitman
  • Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. -- Noah Baumbach
  • Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture. -- M.I.A.
  • I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great. -- Mac DeMarco
  • Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something. -- Tea Leoni
  • How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful. -- Barry Ritholtz
  • My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. -- Jeannette Walls
  • The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing. -- Martin Rees
  • I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes. -- Theophilus London
  • The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States. -- Mick Jagger
  • My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better. -- Karen Gillan
  • In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor. -- Quentin Crisp
  • [Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants. -- Gordon Ramsay
  • At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk. -- Anthony Marra
  • Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life. -- Madhuri Dixit
  • I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls. -- Rex Stout
  • Just as we take a train to get to Beijing or Manhattan, we take death to reach a star. -- David Paul Kirkpatrick
  • I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. -- David Duchovny
  • This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs. -- O. Henry
  • I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan. -- Paul Auster
  • My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers. -- Ansel Elgort
  • In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material. -- Judah Friedlander
  • I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. -- Lewis Mumford
  • Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan. -- Eddie Trunk
  • There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't. -- John Catsimatidis
  • I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive. -- Adam Ferrara
  • Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.' -- John Stossel
  • I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons. -- Judy Gold
  • No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses! -- Moby
  • No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song. -- Ezra Koenig
  • As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat. -- Preet Bharara
  • Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world. -- Noah Baumbach
  • I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue -- Big Noyd
  • It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse. -- Cynthia Heimel
  • In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?' -- Diane Ackerman
  • As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway. -- Alastair Reynolds
  • Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. -- Carson McCullers
  • There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. -- Maxine Kumin
  • In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people. -- Quentin Crisp
  • For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks. -- David Chang
  • If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate. -- Brock Yates
  • Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate. -- Werner Herzog
  • Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan. -- Phil Klay
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  • There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here. -- Daniel Libeskind
  • I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that. -- Julian Casablancas
  • I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours. -- Essence Atkins
  • I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people. -- Drew Magary
  • I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country. -- iO Tillett Wright
  • I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan. -- Raquel Zimmermann
  • If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan. -- Claes Oldenburg
  • There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever. -- Susane Colasanti
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