The New Year is probably the biggest celebration in Russia.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
If you crave an anti-new year New Year, consider adopting Rosh Hashana as your own.
For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
New York is definitely ready for the word of God.
To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.
I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!
I love New York City; I've got a gun.
I run New York City!
In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
