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Sylvia Plath Quote: “I made a point of eating…”

I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef’s salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.

September 21, 2021 1932, American, October 27, Quotes by Poets, Sylvia Plath

Simon Armitage Quote: “I once stood in the middle…”

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the ‘Examiner’ for the first time.

September 12, 2021 1963, British, May 26, Quotes by Poets, Simon Armitage

Yochai Benkler Quote: “On 11 September, I was living…”

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

September 8, 2021 1964, Israeli, Quotes by Educators, Yochai Benkler

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “I go to the hamam and…”

I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams.

August 16, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Benjamin Netanyahu Quote: “I don’t think you can rely…”

I don’t think you can rely on Iran. I don’t think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren’t stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

August 16, 2021 1949, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli, October 21, Quotes by Leaders

Simon Schama Quote: “I felt New York was a…”

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

June 16, 2021 1945, British, February 13, Quotes by Historians, Simon Schama

Wallace Stevens Quote: “New York is a field of…”

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

May 20, 2021 1879, American, October 2, Quotes by Poets, Wallace Stevens

Audre Lorde Quote: “There are lesbians, God knows… if…”

There are lesbians, God knows… if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York… who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

May 9, 2021 1934, American, Audre Lorde, February 18, Quotes by Poets

Frank Moore Colby Quote: “The New York playgoer is a…”

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

May 5, 2021 1865, American, Frank Moore Colby, Quotes by Educators

Alvin E. Roth Quote: “My opportunity to design school choice…”

My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools.

March 17, 2021 1951, Alvin E. Roth, American, December 18, Quotes by Educators

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