#new york

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. ↗

— Barack Obama

#actually #afghanistan #ago #al #attacked

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#life #makes #may #new #new york

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. ↗

— Donna Rice

#carolina #city #compete #encouraged #friends

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there. ↗

— Donna Rice

#actress #card #career #commercial #difficult

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio. ↗

— Frank Rich

#between #break #chicago #film #i

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods. ↗

— Ann Richards

#just #know #made #neighborhoods #new

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence. ↗

— Karl Rove

#existence #got #i #mean #morning

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#agricultural #because #cable #censors #confirm

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#apartment #comfortable #except #felt #i

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#fan #harvey #hear #his #i