Bronx Quotes

• The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

  Kurtis Blow

  Two, Hip Hop, World

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• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Money

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• I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

  Wesley Snipes

  Grew, Grew Up, Teach

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• I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

  Al Pacino

  Needs, Bodyguard, South

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• The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Things In Life, Choices, Forever

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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• I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

  Ace Frehley

  Kids, Lucky

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• If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Kids, Artistic, Feds

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

  Howard Cosell

  Gentleman, Burning, Ladies And Gentlemen

  "Artists spur gentrification of once-blighted Bronx" by Karen Matthews, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2008.

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• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Assistants

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

  Tony Curtis

  Navy, World, Neighborhood

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• Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Miracle, Manhattan, Brooklyn

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• Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Islands, Class, Culture

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• I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Focus, Certain, Backgrounds

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• In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Queens, Different, Manhattan

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• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Ghetto, School, College

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

  Jason Alexander

  Uncles, Queens, Heart

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• So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

  Robert De Niro

  Things In Life, Talent, Life Is

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• Only do what your heart tells you.

  Princess Diana

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

  Colin Powell

  School, Army, College

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• When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

  Dominic Chianese

  Sight, Years, Singing

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• I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girlfriend, Silly, Just Being

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• Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Boston, People

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• When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

  Swizz Beatz

  Growing Up, Jeans, Hip Hop

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