Brooklyn Quotes - Page 11

• I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.

  Lana Parrilla

  Growing Up, Dad, Fighting

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

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• Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Friendship, Mom, Horse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's drones over Brooklyn, you blink, you could get tooken,
  And now you're understanding the definition of 'Crooklyn.'
  Pigs on parade, but bacon fryin' and cookin',
  Cause kids' tired of dyin' and walkin' round like they shooken.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Tired, Kids

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• I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
  Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
  Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
  Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

  Rakim

  Strong, Queens, Rap

  Song: Juice

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• I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn.
  "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?"
  
  On the A Train, pickin at her brain,
  I couldn't get her number, I couldn't get her name.
  
  I said, "I still like your style and fashion,
  But I hate your hot sadiddy attitude wit a passion.
  Is it because brothers like to hawk a lot?
  Is it because your sign don't talk a lot?"
  
  She turned away, no play, I said, "OK,
  You don't really look good, I hope you have a bad day."

  Rakim

  Fashion, Brother, Attitude

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• Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

  Busta Rhymes

  Opportunity, People, Here And There

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

  Al Smith

  Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, Together

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• At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.

  Paul Pierce

  Moving, Legacy, Kind

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• I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.

  Raquel Zimmermann

  Space, Manhattan, Bigger

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• I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Play, Want, Firsts

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• I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

  Didi

  College, Two, Years

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• I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

  Didi

  School, College, Years

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• When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

  GZA

  Battle, Trekking, Plenty

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• Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

  Colson Whitehead

  Hilarious, Mean, Google

  "I Write in Brooklyn. Get Over It." by Colson Whitehead, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2008.

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• I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

  Michael Arad

  Cities, People, Navy

  "Test Drive" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Years, America, Bombshells

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• I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

  Diego Della Valle

  Dream, New York, Bridges

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Mother, Revenge, Father

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• In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

  Michael Chabon

  Dream, New York, Book

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative.

  Fernando Torres

  Littles, Harsh, Made

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.

  Joe Flaherty

  Bars, Toulouse, Showers

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• My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Cities, Community

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan.

  Donald Trump

  Queens, Manhattan, Should

  Source: townhall.com

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• I'm completely perplexed how someone who has most of the mainstream media for Hillary Clinton, well all the mainstream media, well most of the media for her, she's got a sitting president - a sitting First Lady far more popular than she'll ever supposed to be, a former president also her husband, the sitting vice president, a thousand people working in Brooklyn, she has all these states locked up and she can't crack 50% and stay there.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Husband, Media, People

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