"New York is such a special place. It's really intense for people because they live here when they're young. On top of the energy of the city there's a visceral experience a lot of people have because it's a time in their lives where they're just absorbing a lot. Things take on a significance that they might not otherwise."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Meghan Daum

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.”

Source : "Dr. Dre: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2013.
“A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.”
“I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.”

Source : Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”
“Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.”
“If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.”

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