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The mayor has frequently urged us to proceed as quickly as possible, ... I believe that New Yorkers want to see rapid rebuilding and not yet another exercise in planning and re-planning.


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JAMIE SILVERSTEIN I'm just thrilled; not everyone gets another chance to be a part of something really special.
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN Wow, I can't even talk. We really, really wanted it. I'm almost afraid to say how much we wanted it.
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN We really, really wanted this. We were afraid to say how much we wanted this.
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN A spider lives inside my head
Who weaves a strange and wondrous web
Of silken threads and ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you're sloppy, that's just fine.
If you're moody, I won't mind.
If you're fat, that's f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN So what if nobody came?
I’ll have all the ice cream and tea,
And I’ll laugh with mys...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The Colorado statute, however, applies only to American flags, which raises another constitutional i...
MARK SILVERSTEIN Knock! knock!
who's there?
me!
me who?
that's right?
what's right?
mee...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Pirate Captain Jim
"Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim
"But Captain Jim, I cannot swim."
SHEL SILVERSTEIN THE ONE WHO STAYED
You should have heard the old men cry,
You should have heard the biddie...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN One sister for sale,
One sister for sale,
One crying and spying young sister for sale
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Talked my head off
Worked my tail off
Cried my eyes out
Walked my feet off
Sang ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Talked my head off
Worked my tail off
Cried my eyes out
Walked my feet off
Sang ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Sex sells, and those are great marketing, great advertising. There's no regulation of things like dr...
JUDITH SILVERSTEIN I don't see anything in here that would cause sexual arousal or desire.
JUDITH SILVERSTEIN There could have been some background to the rumor. And if not, Burma right now is at a point where ...
JOSEF SILVERSTEIN The Burmese are retreating from the outside world. They are isolating themselves in a bunker mentali...
JOSEF SILVERSTEIN That Janet Bacon was a criminal trespasser has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt. We must assess...
JEFFREY SILVERSTEIN My client felt horrid about what happened, but he truly believed he acted appropriately at the time.
JEFFREY SILVERSTEIN I'm really pleased that he is going to be returned to his family. Obviously, this incident was terri...
JEFFREY SILVERSTEIN What's he doing here?
ROB SILVERSTEIN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
LARRY HOGAN I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War...
LARRY NIVEN The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
LARRY WALL Most jokes state a bitter truth.
LARRY GELBART My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the co...
LARRY PAGE I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...
LARRY FLYNT I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
LARRY WILMORE Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
LARRY WILMORE The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the c...
LARRY WILMORE You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you d...
LARRY WILMORE I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
LARRY WILMORE I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh ev...
LARRY WILMORE My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm w...
LARRY WILMORE I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
LARRY WILMORE People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
LARRY WILMORE There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies th...
LARRY WILMORE If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that ...
LARRY WILMORE When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing i...
LARRY WILMORE I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
LARRY WILMORE I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and ...
LARRY WILMORE When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
LARRY WILMORE The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. An...
LARRY WILMORE The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
LARRY WILMORE Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compa...
LARRY WILMORE Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
LARRY WILMORE I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in conten...
LARRY WILMORE I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was th...
LARRY WILMORE