185 Brooklyn Quotes for You to Enjoy

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do. Theophilus London

You Better Brooklyn Someone Learned Always Years Than Twenty

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City. Vito Fossella

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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that. Warren Cuccurullo

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After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all. Wayne LaPierre

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Ms. Sciorra is a member of a dwindling fleet of actors who actually sound like they come from somewhere. In her case, 'somewhere' is Brooklyn. In most movies, and perhaps especially in a handful of singeing 'Sopranos' episodes, 'somewhere' makes her vital. She's what you'd call an around-the-way girl. Wesley Morris

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I kind of have an allegiance to the city, but I don't love Brooklyn. Weyes Blood

Love Kind City Brooklyn Allegiance

I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country. William Klein

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We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I went to high school in Rochester in New York. Winston Duke

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I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to. Wyatt Cenac

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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

I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour. Wynter Gordon

Shoes Market Brooklyn Tour Tennis Bought Comfortable Around Lounge Flea

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details. Wynter Gordon

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I tell people I'm from all over Brooklyn because I never stayed in one part of Brooklyn. Young M.A

People Tell Brooklyn Stayed Never Part Over Because

The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style. Zack Wheat

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street. Zoe Kazan

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When I go home to Iowa, people assume I live in this very big anonymous place where no one knows each other or wants to. Truth is, I know my neighbors better in Brooklyn than I ever did in Iowa. Peter Hedges

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My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets. Bill O'Reilly

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From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Tim O'Brien

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You're more likely to find me at home in the evenings watching 'Brooklyn Nine Nine.' Phil Rudd

Home Me You Nine Find Brooklyn More Likely Evenings Watching

I can go years without going to Los Angeles, but I think my living in Brooklyn is critical to my continuing to have a fairly happy life in the film industry. Peter Hedges

You could cast nearly any movie in Brooklyn, and now you can film in Brooklyn - for you have studios. Peter Hedges

You Brooklyn Cast Could Studios Any Movie Film Now Nearly

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