Brooklyn Quotes - Page 2

• I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

  Herbie Mann

  Years, Raised

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• I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

  Shakira

  Clothes, Support, Disputes

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• I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

  David Beckham

  Funny, Soccer, Football

  "Together by Richard Sennett - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2013.

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• Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Real, Stuff

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Sports, Marijuana, Men

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• Brooklyn is a very weird borough.

  Keeth Smart

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• Poor thing.
  To die and never see Brooklyn.

  Anne Sexton

  Poor, Dies

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

  Eliza Hittman

  Old And New, World, Tension

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

  Neil Diamond

  Growing Up, Grows

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• Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

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• When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

  Ernie Harwell

  Careers, Height, Brilliant

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, People

  William F Buckley Jr. (1980). “Who's on First”

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• I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  New York, Boys, Childhood

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• The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.

  Bob Dole

  Night, Lasts, Dodgers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Community, Jersey, Bigs

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• I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

  Jennifer Connelly

  New York, Fun, Kids

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• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  New York, California, Trying

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• I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

  Peter Criss

  Dad, People, Four

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• I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

  Michael Musto

  Kids, Simple, Lifestyle

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• Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

  Elliott Carter

  Aunt, Boys, Records

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• I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

  Ellen Burstyn

  People, Manhattan, Has Beens

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• I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

  Ken Burns

  Daughter, Children, Brooklyn Bridge

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• I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Husband, Italian

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Country, Art, Jobs

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.

  Theo James

  Energy, Looks, Manhattan

  "Theo James (AKA Mr. Pamuk on Downton!) On His New Show Golden Boy, NYC, and More". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. February 26, 2013.

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