Bronx Quotes - Page 2

• Only do what your heart tells you.

  Princess Diana

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.

  Lewis Schiff

  New York, School, America

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girl, Dream, Kids

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• My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

  Tracy Morgan

  Growing Up, Purple, Color

  Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza (2009). “I Am the New Black”, p.12, Spiegel & Grau

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• I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

  Al Pacino

  Melting, Pot, Grew Up

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The choices that you make will shape your life forever.

  Francis Capra

  Choices, Decision, Forever

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• I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
  Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
  Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
  Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

  Rakim

  Strong, Queens, Rap

  Song: Juice

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• I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Limited Resources, Levels

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

  Ed Koch

  Boys, Simple

  "Koch a friend and force to the end" by Charles Kaiser, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2013.

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• So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

  Colin Powell

  School, Army, College

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• Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Boston, People

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• I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girlfriend, Silly, Just Being

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• When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

  Dominic Chianese

  Sight, Years, Singing

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• Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

  Majora Carter

  Justice, Environmental, Development

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

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• When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

  Swizz Beatz

  Growing Up, Jeans, Hip Hop

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• For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Growing Up, Kids, Ghetto

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• Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

  Philip Zimbardo

  People, Bully, Shy

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• I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

  Abel Ferrara

  Rap, Grew, Grew Up

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

  Robert De Niro

  Things In Life, Talent, Life Is

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• I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, “I can’t do that.” But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, “Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.

  Ellen Barkin

  New York, Thinking, Hands

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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• The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

  Jose Serrano

  Tolerance, World, Today

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• I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

  Swizz Beatz

  Crazy, Artist, Names

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• I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hate, Home, Cities

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

  Jennifer Lopez

  Style, Influence, Grew Up

  "Jennifer Talks". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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