Brooklyn Quotes - Page 9

• Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

  Daniel Goleman

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

  Truman Capote

  Choices, Ignorant, Wonder

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.293, Modern Library

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• I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

  Tracy Morgan

  Blessed, Lucky, Grew Up

  "Tracy Morgan Interview" by John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.

  Brendan Dooling

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Might, Newark

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• An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.

  Mel Brooks

  Eggs, Water, Jew

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belt, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

  Michael Showalter

  Mean, Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges

  Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black Have Issues with Twitter" by Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2009.

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• I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn at an Italian restaurant. I ran on stage, did my show, and then some guy in the audience threatened to kill me because he didn't like my joke. Instead of talking to him, I just ran off stage. And then, because I was late, the owner of the restaurant threatened to kill me. And I was 19 years old and so scared that I almost started crying. But, I've done every gig you can imagine, in every state.

  Nick Swardson

  Couple, Italian, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• I just made a movie. There's a kind of a banter that some people might recognize as being screwball. There are no cell phones, no DVD playersit's set in a timeless Brooklyn. Hopefully, it's a good, old-fashioned movie.

  Michael Showalter

  Phones, Dvds, Cells

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• CNN? Oh, that's that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be owned by Ted Turner, who, like the Cincinnati Strangler, is a native of Cincinnati. Now part of Time Warner, founded by the Warner Brothers, the oldest of whom, Harry Warner, like many Auschwitz guards, was a native of Poland.

  Mark Steyn

  Brother, Kings, Son

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• When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.

  Robert Nozick

  Plato, Years, Republic

  "The Examined Life". Book by Robert Nozick, 1989.

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• I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

  Keri Russell

  Home, Wish, Subway

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Yankees

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• I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

  Michael K. Williams

  Different, East, Culture

  "Omar Little is the gay stick-up man who robs drug dealers for a living in The Wire" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2008.

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• It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

  David Plotz

  New York, People, Easier

  "The 'How Does a Host of Working Work?' Transcript". Interview with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

  Theophilus London

  New York, Years, Age

  "Theophilus London, Hip-Hop’s Newest Name (and What a Name!)". Interview with Michael Pollock, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2011.

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• It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Want, Subway, Restaurants

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• And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

  David Beckham

  Fun, Son, Garden

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• There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common straw. The king summoned the girl and locked her in a room full of straw and told her to spin it into gold or she would die like a criminal. Poor grape with no one to pick. Luscious and round and sleek. Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. (Rumpelstiltskin)

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Daughter, Kings

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!” It was an odd battle cry.

  Rick Riordan

  Battle, Cry, Odd

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down

  Nas

  Rap, Chocolate, Style

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• He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.

  Arthur Phillips

  Fall, Reflection, Night

  Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House

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• It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

  Betty Smith

  Girl, Names, Want

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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