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  • I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. -- Laura Linney
  • I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. -- Harry Mathews
  • Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side. -- Mandy Patinkin
  • Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. -- Knute Nelson
  • My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York. -- James Gray
  • Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. -- David Hewson
  • On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent. -- Anthony Shadid
  • When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go for a jog around the park every day with my dog. -- Colum McCann
  • Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence. -- Darrell Issa
  • Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you. -- Ansel Elgort
  • The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy. -- Jessi Klein
  • I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic. -- Rocky Graziano
  • In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side. -- Kate Christensen
  • I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. -- LeBron James
  • I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games. -- Joe Scarborough
  • The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world. -- Bryan Greenberg
  • I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career. -- Jacob K. Javits
  • I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus. -- Bobby Flay
  • I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew. -- Martin Scorsese
  • I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good. -- Lou Reed
  • Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too. -- S. E. Hinton
  • 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
  • I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama. -- Joe Biden
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