I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.
And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
I knew if I had to struggle, I couldn't struggle in New York. My ego was too big for it. I couldn't be a guy who is starving when I had a very successful business when I was young.
New York is who I am.
More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.
New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
If I could be living anywhere now, it would be in New York. My heart is in that city.
I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
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