Brooklyn Quotes - Page 12

• If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

  Rene Balcer

  Play, Ifs

  "Law & Order". Crime, Drama, Mystery, 1990-2010.

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• I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

  David Byrne

  Use, Manhattan, Littles

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• My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

  Susan Hayward

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Games

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  War, Manhattan, Elements

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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

  Growing Up, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Ben Clymer, www.askmen.com.

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• I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

  Grant Achatz

  New York, Cooking, Wish

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• I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

  Eddie Griffin

  Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, Riding

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

  Lena Dunham

  School, Creative, Bed

  "Lena Dunham talks Girls with Most Powerful Women". Interview with Soledad O’Brien, fortune.com. October 3, 2012.

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• For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Book, Reading, Years

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• A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

  Moby

  Scary, Manhattan, Strange

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I called my mother immediately to inform her that she was a bad parent. "I can't believe you let us watch this. We ate dinner in front of this." "Everyone watched Twin Peaks," was her response. "So, if everyone jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it, too?" "Don't be silly," she laughed, "of course I would, honey. There'd be no one left on the planet. It would be a very lonely place.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Lonely, Believe

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.90, Portobello Books

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• I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Encouragement, Blessed, People

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• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Rich, Fart, Glitz

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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  Barbra Streisand

  Echoes, Sound, Remember

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• My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

  Maurice Sendak

  Danger, Bad Health, Constant

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• Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

  Tom Robbins

  Love You, Making Love, Half

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.111, Bantam

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• It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.

  Tad Devine

  Mother, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

  Katy Perry

  Hippie, Book, Kids

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• Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

  Michelle Williams

  Moving, Knowing, World

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• I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Community, Littles, Spots

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