Upper East Side Quotes

• I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

  Bobby Flay

  Morning, Sleep, Years

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• I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

  Harry Mathews

  Easter, Sides, Crutches

  "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

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• I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

  Laura Linney

  Manhattan, Sides, Grew

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• Si no fuera por el pub O'Flanagan's, en el Upper East Side de Manhattan, no sé dónde habría pasado mis viernes por la noche de joven.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Viernes, Noche, Hombres

  Discurso de Michael Bloomberg en el desayuno de recepción en Sligo, www1.nyc.gov. 22 de agosto de 2006.

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• After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.

  Nat Hentoff

  Reading, Coffee, Men

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

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• "Bueno, al menos sabes que esta vez funciona", dijo ella, subiéndose detrás de él. "Si nos estrellamos en el aparcamiento de un Key Food, te mato, ¿lo sabes?". "No seas ridículo", dijo Jace. "No hay aparcamientos en el Upper East Side. ¿Por qué conducir cuando puedes hacer que te lleven la compra?".

  Cassandra Clare

  Keys, Sides, Ridiculous

  "Ciudad de Huesos". Libro de Cassandra Clare, 27 de marzo de 2007.

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• I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

  Rick Riordan

  Sea, Sides, Taxi

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.244, Penguin UK

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• I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Blue, Smell

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• As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  New York, Growing Up, Children

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). "Dinero y clase en América: Notas y Observaciones sobre la Religión Civil"

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• Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Exercise, Black

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• Recuerdo que entré en el estudio de la Biblia. Tenía un nudo en el estómago. En mi mente, sólo los raros y los fanáticos iban a estudios bíblicos. No recuerdo lo que se dijo aquel día. Lo único que sé es que cuando salí, todo había cambiado. Nunca olvidare estar fuera de ese apartamento en el Upper East Side y decirme a mi mismo, "Es verdad. Es completamente cierto". El mundo parecía completamente distinto, como si le hubieran quitado un velo. No tenía ni un ápice de duda. Me invadía una alegría indescriptible.

  Kirsten Powers

  Joy, Mind, Doubt

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