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I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. -- Joe Tex
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn. -- Hakeem Jeffries
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. -- Anita Diament
To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years. -- Norman Granz
Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality. -- Derek Luke
My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else. -- Ali Smith
I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. -- Ice T
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Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees. -- Weegee
Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour. -- Joan Rivers
Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages. -- Johnny Carson
I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. -- Cory Booker
I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del. -- Tom Douglas
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New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales. -- Douglas Brinkley
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan. -- Eddie Trunk
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson. -- George Clinton
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Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible. -- Eli Attie
I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer. -- Queen Latifah
There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost. -- Cory Booker
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. -- Cory Booker
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After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. -- Cory Booker
A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start at just $99. If there's two words I trust together in the same sentence, it's 'cheap' and 'helicopter.' -- Jimmy Fallon
When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family. -- Cory Booker
I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job. -- Barbara Kruger
I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college. -- Chris Christie
Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark. -- Sharon Kay Penman
Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. -- Ice T
I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team. -- Carson Daly
We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere. -- Kshama Sawant
If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water. -- Frankie Valli
Once when I was at Newark Mall, me, my friends, my cousin, and my bodyguard were shopping and looking for suitcases cuz we had all these clothes. On our way out, two girls started whispering. The next thing we know, we had at least 200-300 people walking behind us, like the whole mall! -- Lil Romeo
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. -- Cory Booker
I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE. -- Cory Booker
The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my teens. I did my first record, which was an old standard called 'My Mother's Eyes.' It was the old Georgie Jessel theme. I heard it on local radio out of Newark. And it was very exciting! -- Frankie Valli

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