My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process.
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York.
One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.
I have my clothes made in Hong Kong, but I love Shangai Tang in New York.
Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.
A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
