My priority always has and will continue to be the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn who sent me to Congress to represent them. Their interests come before Washington, always.
Dan Donovan
PeopleMeBrooklynWashingtonIsland
Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.
Jimmy Iovine
LifeBetterBrooklynEngineersRight
O'Malley wanted to move the Dodgers out of Brooklyn because he saw the promised land. He was right about that, but to this day I think he was wrong to take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn.
Jerry Reinsdorf
DayThinkBrooklynWrongLandRight
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
ChildhoodNew YorkBrooklynBornNew
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.
Star Jones
BrooklynDivisionSeniorProsecutor
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.
Tony Judt
LiveManPeopleHurtBrooklynKind
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
FriendsBrooklynNewOutHangBig
Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.
Minnesota Fats
MeLongBrooklynIslandBallsKid
I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'
Judy Sheindlin
ThoughtBrooklynNeverOutApartment
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
New YorkBridgeRememberBrooklyn
To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'
Chuck Schumer
StrongBrooklynSayWantBackwards
I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to have to accept me or just not be a fan, I guess.
Astro
New YorkMeYouArtistBrooklynNew
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
Wyclef Jean
CoolGrowing UpThinkSuitsBrooklyn
If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.
Peter Steele
MotherCareBrooklynPersonalMy Own
Three of my childhood dreams went unfulfilled. I never saw a no-hitter, never saw a triple play, and never caught a ball that had been hit into the stands. But I did see the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a World Series game when I was 10.
Thomas Hauser
DreamsChildhoodWorldGameBrooklyn
I'll always be a Brooklyn girl.
Justine Skye
GirlBrooklynAlways
For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
George Vecsey
MemoriesGameBrooklynPlaceFirst
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
LifeLivePeopleMy LifeBrooklyn
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.
Curt Weldon
PlanningBrooklynMilitaryOutTake
In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.
Alek Wek
HomeBagBrooklynAskAlwaysBring
I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's hair, but he fired her to work for me.
Theophilus London
WorkMeHairLadyBrooklynPersonal
I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are.
Paul Dano
LoveYouBrooklynWhoPartI Love
I saw a cardinal when I was in Brooklyn, and I was almost moved to tears. I was, like, 'I can't believe this thing is legal. I can't believe this thing is in the wild. How did this happen? How has someone not killed them all? They're so conspicuous. They're gorgeous. How can they still be alive?'
Nell Zink
TearsBelieveLegalSomeoneBrooklyn
Brooklyn is a very weird borough.
Keeth Smart
WeirdBrooklynVery
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