"We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was."

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Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

Philipp Meyer

#Country Quotes #New York Quotes #Funny Things Quotes

“The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.”
“I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.”
“Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
“I rightly pass for an atheist.”
“My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.”

Source : Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag
“One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.”

Source : William Carey (1792). “An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,”, p.77

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