Diverse Population Quotes

New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world.

We're from New York, so we have a decent following.

One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through movies and songs and TV - often of an all-American family at the same time as the real Los Angeles is peopled by souls from Vietnam, Guatemala, and Korea who look nothing like the images being beamed out. I think all that is going to have to change and illusion is going to have to catch up with reality in that regard.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

I love New York. I love working here.

New York is a weird place.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

It's not a traditional America anymore.

New York City is my favorite city in the world.

There are men of eighteen different languages; they are scattered here and there upon the [Hudson] river.

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

... a motley rabble of saucy boys, Negroes, and mulattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs.

London is a modern Babylon.

Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.

Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.

Any time you get to come to New York and be near New York City, that is a very cool opportunity.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

Toronto is like a smaller, safe New York.

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

I grew up in Mumbai.

As Latinos, you want [people] to come to America - not necessarily Latinos, but [anyone who wants] to come here for a better life. That's kind of how this country was founded and the history of this country.

It was great starting in San Francisco. I really think it's is the best place to start in the country.