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I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely. -- Derek Luke
When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider. -- Michelle Rodriguez
I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there! -- Tammy Blanchard
Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends. -- Michelle Rodriguez
I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City. -- Richard Price
The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up. -- Michelle Rodriguez
I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow. -- Frank Vincent
I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow. -- Frank Vincent
I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents. -- Vincent Frank
I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter. -- Pablo Schreiber
Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide. -- David Souter
And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world. -- Laura E. Richards
I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. -- Eric Maskin
New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. -- Fran Lebowitz
I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. -- Jon Stewart
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. -- Robert Smithson

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