I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there.

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

I mostly read online - tech/VC blogs. I also enjoy the 'NY Times', 'Atlantic', 'New Yorker'.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life.

I am a New Yorker! Mass transit is my sweet ride. I know the subway system like the back of my hand.

My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones.

In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'

A comfortable retirement should not only be a luxury for the wealthy, but a reality for every New Yorker.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

If you want to bowl a yorker, you have to land it; if you want to bowl a bouncer you have to be on the money.

I listen to my early Gang Starr interviews, I'm like, damn I was really trying to sound like a New Yorker then.

Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

I'm always thinking about how what I'm doing is affecting the people around me. As a New Yorker, you have to be that way.

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

Every hard working New Yorker, regardless of their income, race, or gender deserves an equal shot at attaining retirement security.

For news, I follow 'The New York Times,' 'The New Yorker,' and 'ProPublica.' For entertainment, I like The A.V. Club and The Onion.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

Wikipedia is wrong! I was born in Los Angeles, not New York, but my parents and I would come here a lot, so I feel like a New Yorker.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.

I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

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