"The people really are what make New York…" — David Dinkins
"The people really are what make New York City great."
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28 Quotes by David Dinkins
David Dinkins has 28 quotes on this site.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
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And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
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Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If…
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And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
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As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
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But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
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But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
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Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach…
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I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.
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I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done…
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I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
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