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Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.


Walter Lippmann

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My man Friday (Robinson Crusoe)
DANIEL DEFOE He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!
SAMUEL FOOTE New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
EDI GATHEGI Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
ANONYMOUS One of the things I noticed while I lived in New York City was how different the kids and teens were...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I ...
PETE HAMILL We want to keep going. I lived in New York City for awhile, and my idea is to surround New York City...
DAVE MORRIS Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...
CARLOS FUENTES Notice: The only person getting his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
UNKNOWN We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
LI KEQIANG The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to ...
WALTER LIPPMANN Whatever city we've lived in, we've given to. From Honolulu all the way to New York. It's part of be...
PATRICK DUFFY However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
JOHN GUARE I was built for this. I got those survival instincts. I'm like Robinson Crusoe, a neighborhood MacGy...
CLARENCE RODRIGUEZ I was built for this, ... I got those survival instincts. I'm like Robinson Crusoe, a neighborhood M...
GREGORY RODRIGUEZ I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents bui...
ARIEL LEVY It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed lik...
STEPHANIE CLIFFORD I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, accord...
SAMUEL R. DELANY I run New York City!
CONOR MCGREGOR By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle...
CYNTHIA VOIGT We did not want to be competing with Ray Kelly and the New York City Police Department because New Y...
DAVID POLLOCK They could move here and still retain their name as the New York Black Yankees. The New York would g...
DOUG BREI New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
LEWIS MUMFORD New York is the Caoutchouc City. . . . They have the furor rubberendi.
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) New York is the greatest city in the world.
ANNA WOOD There's no radio station in New York City where you can hear Sinatra sing 'New York, New York.' On X...
HUGH PANERO I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world a...
M. J. ROSE It's very hard to have fun on a Saturday in New York City,
MICHAEL BURKE From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York Cit...
ROBERT SMITHSON New York is my favorite city in the world.
LIAM GALLAGHER I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
GABRIEL MACHT I understand there's as much as $800,000 to $900,000 in that fund that could come to New York City,
ED BOKS Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among th...
KATE CHRISTENSEN New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten ...
JOHN STEINBECK The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wi...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when...
AYN RAND I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to b...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES I loved experiencing city life in New York.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.
JOHN LIU I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG [NEW YORK -] Sex and the City ... House.
CYNTHIA NIXON I know there are a lot of country music fans in New York City but the problem with doing a show in N...
TRACE ADKINS Well it's a 15 percent federal tax, those who live in New York City, you do have New York State and ...
DAVID SANDS Any precinct captain in New York could have told the grandmother that latches of that nature could n...
ANTHONY VIDLER New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody woul...
BOB DYLAN My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ...
JOE LHOTA Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.
CAROLINE SHAW I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted th...
LARRY KRAMER The art of urban planning is not just to do fantasies, to impose mega-structural ideas, but to creat...
DANIEL LIBESKIND One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a w...
COLUM MCCANN New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh...
ELIZABETH WINDER That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
AMOR TOWLES New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the g...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up in Brooklyn,
that Bridge was...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Ever...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
TOM WOLFE I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing arou...
NORA EPHRON Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.
COLSON WHITEHEAD Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the...
COLSON WHITEHEAD The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.
COLSON WHITEHEAD New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
COLSON WHITEHEAD Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.
COLSON WHITEHEAD You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.
COLSON WHITEHEAD I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.
ANDREJ PEJIC "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen ...
PETE HAMILL Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri...
HENRY ROLLINS I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN New York City is not going to be cowed by the terrorists, ... Make no mistake about that. We're not ...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightl...
REGINA HALL Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of th...
RUDY GIULIANI In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, ...
AAGE BOHR I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
JON FAVREAU The people really are what make New York City great.
DAVID DINKINS When every fifth child in New York City lives in a home that doesn't have enough food, it is clear t...
JOEL BERG London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.
JOHN MCENROE I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City,...
CHRIS WOOD New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways.
PAUL DANO In New York City we need police officers to protect even the dead.
WILLIAM J. DEAN The African-American Freedom Trail: From Slavery to Freedom in New York City
CHRISTOPHER MOORE You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-suffi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.
ERIC MASKIN Kansas City to Cincinnati to Indianapolis to Pittsburgh to New York City.
ELEANOR VOSBERG The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Y...
JACK KEANE If you take out New York City, New York State's economy is right down there with Mississippi and Lou...
GREG LEROY Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York...
P. DIDDY, PUFF DADDY Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York...
P. DIDDY PUFF DADDY On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash,...
EDWARD CONLON I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.
BEN SCHNETZER Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New...
JOHN GUARE Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
FRED ALLEN On New York: This city sounds like jazz.
SHAKIRA I think this works for New York City.
IRWIN COHEN When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I co...
RUDY GIULIANI In New York City, science is treated like a second-class subject.
EVA MOSKOWITZ The journalist Walter Lippmann identified in Henry Ford, for all his peculiarity, a common strain of...
GREG GRANDIN You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its me...
ELIZABETH WINDER Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a di...
TEJU COLE There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
JONATHAN LETHEM And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
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WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
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WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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