Brooklyn Quotes

I live in Brooklyn, and there's so many interracial couples in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, you don't talk about race like that.

Jessica Williams

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My brother and I have never been that close. We have different mothers and never lived in the same house. As kids, my sister, Samantha, and I lived in San Diego and Brad in Brooklyn. The only time I saw him was in the summer when our visitations with our father overlapped.

Jenny Mollen

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I like going after work back to Brooklyn because it is so much more relaxed and chill.

Anna Ewers

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It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

Stan Musial

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After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Rudolph A. Marcus

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The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted Brooklyn's, in the dust.

Michelle Dean

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A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Moby

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Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jason Calacanis

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I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Chris Rock

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My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

Bruno Mars

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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

Alice McDermott

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I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was the '60s, and the neighborhood was rapidly changing and not without its problems. All the kids of the neighborhood 'did their thing,' breaking windows and the like. I was no different.

William Forsythe

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In about 2002, I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, to Red Hook.

Pedro Pascal

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I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

Lena Dunham

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Most people associate Wu Tang with Staten Island or Shaolin, but actually, I'm a native of Brooklyn. I was born in Crown Heights, raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick.

Gza

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

Ernie Harwell

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For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

Elizabeth Strout

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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

Buddy Hackett

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I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

Viola Davis

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I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn.

Sasha Velour

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I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.

Neal Adams

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In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

Jacqueline Woodson

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The only people who live in Brooklyn are people who can't afford the East Village.

Gavin McInnes

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It's almost hip to, you know, be from Brooklyn or to live in Brooklyn.

Aja Brown

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