It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Busta Rhymes, I have to give him credit for one thing: he always lays the red carpet out for me when I'm in New York.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.

This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.

I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner.

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

The 'New York Daily News' called me the most reviled athlete ever in sports history in New York. I don't listen to them.

Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

I just love Fortitude Valley, I love all of it. It is such a progressive hub, it feels like the East Village of New York.

In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

I always said whoever brings Mexican food to New York would make a million dollars. Then Chipotle happened, which is fine.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

A jigsaw puzzle is my form of meditation. In New York, I glued all of the ones I did together and hung them up on the wall.

Go for a walk through Central Park and stop at the Met. It's the best way to get a feel for what makes New York so special.

The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

Things that work in New York or New Delhi do not work in the mountains. We have to find our own solutions for our problems.

Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'

I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for so long.

Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.

To know that I was being heard on the radio, it made me feel as if I was, I guess, spread across New York. It was incredible.

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'

After a series of jobs that I prefer not to recall, I was hired in the early eighties as fashion editor of 'New York' magazine.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

I'm always tan and blonde and don't really fit into New York. I'm a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

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