Avoided Quote by Fran Lebowitz

I don't wish for anybody to go out of business, but I think there are far too many things in New York that really…

— James Jebbia

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

— Anonymous

Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city,…

— Fran Lebowitz

I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.

— Paul Laffoley

I care about making New York better.

— John Catsimatidis

The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that…

— Chris March

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

— Richard M. Nixon

The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.

— Andre Benjamin

The fashion business has to change. There's too much waste.

— Maria Cornejo

New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want…

— Debbie Harry

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

— Claes Oldenburg