Brooklyn Quotes - Page 3

• I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

  Barbra Streisand

  Girl, Thinking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2006.

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• But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

  Betty Smith

  Men, Tree, Trying

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

  Don Drysdale

  People, Littles, Pitching

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• I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Moving, Italian, Thinking

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• The world was hers for the reading.

  Betty Smith

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Mother, Children, School

  "Great Minds Start With Questions". Parents Magazine, September 1993.

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• Brooklyn praise is half slander.

  Mark Twain

  Half, Praise, Slander

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.370, Univ of California Press

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• A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

  Maria Rodale

  New York, People, Passionate

  Source: www.mcall.com

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• I’m a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Guy, Trying, Fans

  "Andrew Dice Clay On ‘Indestructible,’ His Comeback And Why He Hates Internet Porn". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.

  Caroline Polachek

  Moving, People, Hub

  "Ten Minutes With… Chairlift’s Caroline Polacheck". Interview with Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. June 18, 2009.

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• We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

  David Beckham

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

  Barbara Boxer

  Care, Born, Take Care Of Yourself

  Source: progressive.org

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• Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Philadelphia, Manhattan, Made

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• Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

  Woody Allen

  Suicide, Unhappy, Grew

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• Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, America, Ugly

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• Only the dead know Brooklyn.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Knows

  Thomas Wolfe, Francis E. Skipp (1989). “The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

  Rosie Perez

  Appreciate, Left

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• Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Retreat, Kind

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• I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

  Marilyn Monroe

  House, Littles, Coast

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• Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Home, Looks, Architecture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

  Theophilus London

  Years, Twenties, Ive Learned

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• Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

  Richard Jeni

  Eight, Years, Guy

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• Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Self, Manhattan, Might

  Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.50, Vintage

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• Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.

  Robert Wagner

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.

  Sean William Scott

  Views, Bridges, Brooklyn Bridge

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