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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx. -- Al Pacino
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. -- Kurtis Blow
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. -- Tony Curtis
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. -- David Wilkerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. -- Howard Cosell
I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky. -- Ace Frehley
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. -- Cy Coleman
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!' -- Wesley Snipes
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. -- Daniel Libeskind
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. -- Ed Koch
I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music. -- Abel Ferrara
I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx. -- Danny Aiello
Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame. -- Robert Klein
Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable -- Majora Carter
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects. -- Majora Carter
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York. -- Wesley Snipes
Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo. -- Gerry Cheevers
New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down. -- Betty Comden
Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles. -- Gena Showalter
A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations. -- Wesley Snipes
The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx. -- Jose Serrano
At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music. -- Prince Royce
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age. -- Abel Ferrara
I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things. -- Jennifer Lopez
I'm from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I'll keep it live in the house. -- Big Bank Hank
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college. -- Jonathan Kozol
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
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble. -- Maggie Siff
I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do. -- Prince Royce
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
There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx. -- Art Donovan
People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'. -- Fab Five Freddy
I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for. -- Eliot Engel
I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born. -- Danny Burstein
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
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx. -- Al Pacino
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
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
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic. -- Cara Buono
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
The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there. -- Coeur de pirate
I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something. -- Dave Barry
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
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets. -- Daniel Boulud
I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA. -- Joe Lhota
Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx. -- Moss Hart
I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!' -- Cara Buono
I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx. -- Adrian McKinty
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world. -- Afrika Bambaataa
I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority. -- Grace Paley
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
In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts. -- Pete Wentz
I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers. -- Sid Bernstein
To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up. -- Alicia Keys
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
Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown. -- Langston Hughes
I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx. -- Dascha Polanco
I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun. -- Leonard Susskind
I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well. -- Sid Bernstein
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
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world. -- Dan Rosensweig
I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher. -- Robert Lefkowitz
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect. -- Majora Carter
I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me." -- Dion DiMucci
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River? -- Alex Gibney
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played. -- Grandmaster Flash
We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do. -- Alice Waters
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely. -- Jerry Saltz
When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.' -- Liz Murray
When I grew up I assembled my role models Ã la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The building in the Bronx where I grew up was filled with mostly Holocaust survivors. My two best friends' parents both survived the camps. Everyone in my grandparents' building had tattoos. I'd go shopping with my grandparents, and the butcher, the baker, everybody in the whole neighborhood had tattoos. -- Amy Heckerling
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that. -- Jay-Z
I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on 'Saturday Night Live' since Eddie Murphy. -- Tracy Morgan
My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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

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