A Quote by Gerald Stanley Lee

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

Gerald Stanley Lee

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Gerald Stanley Lee
American - Author
1862 - 1944

In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.

Darin Strauss

Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.

David Dinkins

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

Ron Chernow

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

Takashi Murakami

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Andrew Cuomo

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

Bill Maris

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Thomas Wolfe

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

Robert Wilson

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

Jean-Baptiste Say

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

Josh Radnor

I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great.