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I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didnt think theyd come home alive. I didnt think I would either, so I was happy when I did. – Ed Koch

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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. – Ed Koch

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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. Whats cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I dont want to do that. – Ed Koch

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Theres a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies – the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who dont like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. Its not the coin of the realm in politics. – Ed Koch

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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. – Jackson Pollock

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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. – Naguib Mahfouz

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