185 Brooklyn Quotes for You to Enjoy

The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life. Jennifer Konner

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I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all. Jerry Doyle

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My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened. Jerry Reinsdorf

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I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there. Jessica Williams

Love Live Brooklyn Hill Clinton

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

You Live Brooklyn About Like Talk Couples Race Many

Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history. Jidenna

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In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.' Jidenna

Me Hood Kids Brooklyn Call

I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic. Jimmy Iovine

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I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie. Jimmy Iovine

Brooklyn Came Nickname

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

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Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are. John Sandford

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I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds. Jonathan Tucker

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Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences. Joshua Foer

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I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.' Judy Sheindlin

Thought Out Brooklyn Never Again Apartment Started

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone. Julian Casablancas

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I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider New York my home, and L.A. a place that I go. I always say I go with an empty sack and try to fill it with as much money as possible to bring back to New York. Julie White

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I'll always be a Brooklyn girl. Justine Skye

Girl Brooklyn Always

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Brooklyn Dodgers Were Rooted

With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge. Kate Christensen

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Brooklyn is a very weird borough. Keeth Smart

Brooklyn Weird Very

You're at LaGuardia, and you get in a cab, and it's taking you into Brooklyn, and you're on the BQE, and you can see the skyline, the whole skyline, and it's so beautiful. Kevin Morby

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