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I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker. -- DMX
I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. -- Alan Dershowitz
I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day. -- Tamara Tunie
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. -- David Sedaris
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. -- E. B. White
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. -- Sloane Crosley
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework. -- Bil Keane
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. -- Brendan Gill
Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons. -- Roz Chast
One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative. -- Liza Donnelly
I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. -- David Bowie
I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower. -- Derek Jeter
I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye. -- Sherri Shepherd
I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times. -- Chris Ware
I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker. -- Ed Koch
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. -- Moby
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying. -- James Balog
I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else. -- Sigourney Weaver
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. -- Nate Silver
I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Technically, I'm a New Yorker. -- Charlie Day
I'm a New Yorker, you know. -- Edward Norton
I am the young, edgy New Yorker. -- Douglas Wilson
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues. -- Zoe Kravitz
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. -- Alan Dershowitz
I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker. -- Kevin Sessums
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I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage. -- Cheyenne Jackson
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker -- Parker Stevenson
Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me. -- Bob Dylan
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. -- Herb Caen
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. -- John Oliver
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. -- V. S. Pritchett
I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit. -- Rachel Boston
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry. -- Lily Tomlin
I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard. -- Ben Elliot
I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded. -- Genevieve Gorder
I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home. -- Hope Davis
New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker. -- Anthony Weiner
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla! -- Heather Thomson
I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter. -- David Sedaris
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust. -- Laurence J. Peter
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. -- Nicole Holofcener
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' -- George Saunders
I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic. -- Moon Unit Zappa
A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans -- Curtis Granderson
I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it. -- Jay Maisel
On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. -- George Pataki
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. -- Jane Pauley
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? -- Leonard Slatkin
Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers. -- Hillary Clinton
You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker. -- Chris Diamantopoulos
The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. -- Robert Mankoff
I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. -- Meg Rosoff
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here. -- Joan Collins
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. -- R. L. Stine
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. -- Vanessa Ferlito
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three. -- Laurie Anderson
A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. -- Amanda Hearst
No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy. -- Daniel Boulud
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. -- Armand Assante
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family. -- Susan Sarandon
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here. -- Elaine Stritch
I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly. -- Kevin Sessums
Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. -- Nydia Velazquez
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker -- Armand Assante
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11. -- Lanford Wilson
You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park. -- Andy Roddick
You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park -- Andy Roddick
Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker. -- Trevor Moore
I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. -- Kara DioGuardi
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. -- Laurie Anderson
I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. -- Trevor Moore
I am a music snob, and proud of it. I'm a New Yorker; smugness is my birthright. -- J.J. Howard
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night. -- Dorothy Parker
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. -- John Updike
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. -- Daniel Alarcon
When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. -- Tina Brown
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling. -- Christine Lavin
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. -- Phyllis Diller
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. -- Johnny Carson
I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. -- Judy Holliday
I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear. -- Henrik Lundqvist
I think sleep is just the most important thing. I think most New Yorkers, especially, don't get enough sleep. -- Chelsea Leyland
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. -- Pete Hamill
I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk. -- Ed Askew
New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place. -- Wolfgang Puck
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. -- Colson Whitehead
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist. -- Sloane Crosley
Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best. -- Paul Dano
The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense. -- Josh Radnor
My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers. -- Ansel Elgort
The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers. -- John Spencer
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! -- Patrick Henry
I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. -- Jeffrey Steingarten
I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. -- Cyndi Lauper
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' -- Diane Mott Davidson
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. -- George Pataki
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. -- Richard Avedon
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New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love -- Madonna Ciccone
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert. -- Robert Mankoff
To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize. -- Eliot Spitzer
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling. -- Donnie Wahlberg
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. -- David Sedaris
I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different. -- Mike Binder
My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker. -- Brian Setzer
Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago. -- Nat Hentoff
My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain. -- Michele Lee
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real. -- Sarah Palin
New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies. -- Clark Gregg
I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker. -- Mark Indelicato
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
One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. -- Kurt Vonnegut

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