The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way."
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Brooklyn
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Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine."
Betty Smith
Author
"'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'"
Betty Smith
Author
"Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?"
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"Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half."
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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."
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"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."
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"Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day."
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"Only the dead know Brooklyn."
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"I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal."
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"Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister."
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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."
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"Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn."
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"I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant."
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"Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do."
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"Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy."
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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."
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"Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat."
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"I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why."
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"I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture."
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"Brooklyn praise is half slander."
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"Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds."
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