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I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge. -- Ken Burns
I grew up in Brooklyn. -- Johnny Kelly
The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night. -- Bob Dole
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years. -- Herbie Mann
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion. -- David Beckham
I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable. -- Michael Musto
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it. -- Will Rogers
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. -- Star Jones
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. -- Neil Diamond
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. -- David Wilkerson
I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs. -- Connie Stevens
Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were. -- Pee Wee Reese
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children. -- Dominic Chianese
If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland. -- Peter Steele
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. -- Bill Griffith
Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends. -- Sydney Schanberg
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
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. -- Robert Quine
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records. -- Elliott Carter
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. -- Curt Weldon
I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it. -- Rosie Perez
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. -- Al Sharpton
I hate Brooklyn. -- Cassandra Clare
I live in Brooklyn. -- Ana Gasteyer
Brooklyn praise is half slander. -- Mark Twain
Only the dead know Brooklyn. -- Thomas Wolfe
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening. -- Waris Dirie
I live in Brooklyn. By choice, -- Truman Capote
Brooklyn is a very weird borough. -- Keeth Smart
Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. -- Tracy K. Smith
The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together, -- Al Smith
Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. -- Anne Sexton
I'm 37, please don't make me go to Brooklyn. -- LIZ
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. -- Barbra Streisand
I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn. -- James Rosenquist
I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It would be a blessing to play in Brooklyn Nets . -- Lance Stephenson
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. -- Patrick Ewing
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now. -- Don DeLillo
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. -- Jonathan Franzen
'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn. -- Spike Lee
Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort") --Motto of Brooklyn College -- Tony-Paul de Vissage
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. -- Dave Van Ronk
Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy. -- Woody Allen
Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge. -- Jason Calacanis
If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules. -- Rene Balcer
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. -- Barbra Streisand
I heard Amos yell, "For Brooklyn!" It was an odd battle cry. -- Rick Riordan
Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn. -- David Blaine
I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household. -- Tony Visconti
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. -- Maurice Sendak
At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home. -- Marianne Moore
What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere. -- Arthur Schwartz
Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn. -- Caroline Polachek
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous. -- Larry King
I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn. -- Joe Torre
I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet. -- David Beckham
I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA. -- Cary Fukunaga
I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years. -- Didi Conn
I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn. -- Mary Tyler Moore
I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years. -- Didi Conn
Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec. -- Joe Flaherty
I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet. -- David Beckham
Everyone needs a facelift, except if you are from Brooklyn then you need a nose job !!! -- Joan Rivers
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn. -- Hakeem Jeffries
I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why. -- Truman Capote
My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work. -- Nicki Minaj
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. -- Ernie Harwell
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day. -- Theo Rossi
Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun. -- David Beckham
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that? -- John Goodman
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education. -- Peter Criss
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved. -- Alice Hoffman
At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since. -- Betty Comden
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. -- Bob Dylan
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began. -- Rudolph A. Marcus
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. -- Anthony Bourdain
Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do. -- Theophilus London
Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island. -- Minnesota Fats
I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed. -- Lena Dunham
Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down -- Nas
I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920. -- Mickey Rooney
At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn. -- Paul Pierce
You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone. -- Brandy Norwood
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures. -- Michael K. Williams
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. -- Frank McCourt
Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties. -- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
I will always be dedicated to the talented men and women at our headquarters in Brooklyn and across the country. -- Hillary Clinton
Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world. -- Eliza Hittman
I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot. -- Zoe Kravitz
I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope. -- Stephanie Beatriz
In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk. -- Roz Chast
I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway. -- Keri Russell
A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn. -- Maria Rodale
I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard. -- Saoirse Ronan
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. -- Robert Jay Lifton
I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour. -- Wynter Gordon
I admit I keep a clichÃ©d ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them. -- Gregory Pardlo
I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something? -- Kemp Muhl
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. -- Allen Ginsberg
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
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
I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood. -- Anthony Fauci
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
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
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. -- Carson McCullers
I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working. -- Tracy Morgan
Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy. -- Tracy Morgan
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
Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative. -- Fernando Torres
Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who's freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. -- Peter Dinklage
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
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
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. -- Isaac Mizrahi
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
I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face. -- Michael K. Williams

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