Bronx Quotes

• The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

  Kurtis Blow

  Two, Hip Hop, World

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• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Money

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• I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

  Wesley Snipes

  Grew, Grew Up, Teach

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• I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

  Al Pacino

  Needs, Bodyguard, South

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• The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Things In Life, Choices, Forever

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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• I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

  Ace Frehley

  Kids, Lucky

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• If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Kids, Artistic, Feds

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Assistants

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

  Howard Cosell

  Gentleman, Burning, Ladies And Gentlemen

  "Artists spur gentrification of once-blighted Bronx" by Karen Matthews, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Islands, Class, Culture

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• My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

  Tony Curtis

  Navy, World, Neighborhood

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• Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Miracle, Manhattan, Brooklyn

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• I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Focus, Certain, Backgrounds

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• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Ghetto, School, College

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Queens, Different, Manhattan

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• As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  Powerful, Nice, Four

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• But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

  Jason Alexander

  Uncles, Queens, Heart

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• You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what hed done the night before. I thought, I can do that! I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

  Regis Philbin

  Jobs, Night, Done

  "Jerry Seinfeld Interviews Regis Philbin on His Television Career". Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2011.

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• When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

  Cy Coleman

  Mother, Years, Four

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• Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx.

  James A. Baldwin

  New York, Wall, Mistake

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• I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Baby, Yale, Perfect

  "Sotomayor Praises Affirmative Action". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2009.

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• My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

  Chazz Palminteri

  Father, Things In Life, Talent

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• It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

  Fat Joe

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.

  Rob Huebel

  Jobs, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.avclub.com

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