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“I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.”
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“There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.”
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“I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.”
Source : "The Proust Questionnaire: Ed Koch". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. February 2013.
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“If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.”
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“Tell ya what I'm gonna do, see. I'm not going to hope. Now, you don't either. Don't hope your life will get better. Just make it so. Don't hope you are able to handle this baby. Just do it. Just be glad, just move fast, just do what you need to do. But for god's sake, don't hope. Just be...Just be.”
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“Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.”
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“I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.”
Source : "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.
