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New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest. -- Janet McTeer
New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly. -- Jeannette Walls
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. -- John Oliver
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. -- Herb Caen
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
A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans -- Curtis Granderson
Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers. -- George Pataki
I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor. -- Billy Eichner
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed. -- Jim Harrison
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. -- Jane Pauley
Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers. -- Hillary Clinton
On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. -- George Pataki
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here. -- Elaine Stritch
Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. -- Nydia Velazquez
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
New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers. -- Brooks Atkinson
You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park -- Andy Roddick
...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers... -- Edith Wharton
New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill. -- Anderson Cooper
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all! -- Robert Orben
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling. -- Christine Lavin
I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear. -- Henrik Lundqvist
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. -- Johnny Carson
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. -- Phyllis Diller
I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers. -- Christine Quinn
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night. -- Dorothy Parker
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. -- Steve Earle
Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world. -- Andy Warhol
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. -- Sloane Crosley
I think sleep is just the most important thing. I think most New Yorkers, especially, don't get enough sleep. -- Chelsea Leyland
New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place. -- Wolfgang Puck
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
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist. -- Sloane Crosley
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! -- Patrick Henry
New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves. -- Katharine Brush
I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. -- Jeffrey Steingarten
New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me. -- Fran Lebowitz
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 history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers -- John Spencer
Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person. -- Christine Quinn
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 last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. -- Douglas Adams
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers. -- Malachy McCourt
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
New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England. -- Louise Roe
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
Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent. -- Van Wyck Brooks
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
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
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. -- Jimmy Connors
I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography. -- William Klein
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. -- Jon Stewart
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day. -- Sloane Crosley
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Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them. -- Ellie Kemper
We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are. -- Bill de Blasio
If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year. -- Casey Neistat
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York? -- Edward Abbey
The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know. -- Marya Mannes
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. -- Michael Chabon
I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life. -- Nouriel Roubini
From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism. -- John Henry Holland
The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime. -- Sal Albanese
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts. -- Rebecca Solnit
I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history. -- Howard Hawks
I believe in New Yorkers. Whether theyâ??ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldnâ??t know, because I wonâ??t ever dare ask that question. -- Dylan Thomas
I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York. -- Creed Bratton
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting. -- Jimmy Breslin
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway. -- Taylor Kitsch
Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer. -- Barbara Holland
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere. -- E. B. White
I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live. -- Bill de Blasio
I have big emotions, and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers, and sometimes that means you got to push things forward - and I think New Yorkers know that. -- Christine Quinn
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form. -- Jim Walsh
If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!) -- Thea Gilmore
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. -- David Letterman
If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back. -- Daniel Boulud
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do. -- Robert Benchley
My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view. -- Gad Elmaleh
Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely. -- Christine Quinn
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation. -- Vito Fossella
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry. -- Cate Marvin
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything. -- George Pataki
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. -- Stephen King
I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same. -- Christine Quinn
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
Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago - they find a way to just carry on. But you're stressed out. You're worried, you know. -- Mohsin Hamid
My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy. -- Samantha Bee
The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality. -- Eliot Spitzer
There were a few nighttime pedestrians on the block, but they continued on their way, dutifully ignoring the zombie vomiting blood out of the back of my car. Good old New Yorkers. They really couldn't care less. -- Nicholas Kaufmann
The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved. -- Hill Harper
A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey. -- Jay Leno
Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11. -- Michael Bloomberg
I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is. -- John Oliver
Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about. -- David Frost
I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't. -- Jacki Weaver
What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place. -- Spalding Gray
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels. -- Paul Goodman
Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility. -- Christine Quinn
There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train. -- David Letterman
I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life. -- Ben Elliot
I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally "become a New Yorker." -- Adrian Tomine
The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all. -- George Pataki
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11. -- Nick Turse
These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing. -- Sal Albanese
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences. -- Joshua Foer
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I realize that for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you've heard my name, and you don't know much about me. Over these next two years you will get to know me, but more importantly, I will get to know you. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it. -- Tina Fey
New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them. -- Christine Quinn
New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement. -- Zelda Popkin
When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging. -- Jonathan Raban
Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B. -- Dave Barry
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers. -- Aravind Adiga
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town. -- Judith Kelman

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