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• The idea of trust-fund guys who live in Brooklyn in their 30s is really interesting to me. There’s a time and a place where that kind of bohemian lifestyle is appropriate, soon after college, in your 20s. But there are people still living that many years later; they haven’t evolved to the next phase.

  Tim Heidecker

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  Tags in Brooklyn, Appropriate

• For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

  Elizabeth Strout

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  Tags in Tons, Brooklyn

• 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

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  Tags in Humbled, Brooklyn

• For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black’s tweets.

  Michael Showalter

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  Tags in Brooklyn, Traffic

• When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

  Lana Del Rey

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  Tags in Underground, Brooklyn

• I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

  Shakira

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  Tags in Brooklyn, Dispute

• I’ve lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Brooklyn

• I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

  Emanuel Celler

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  Tags in Brooklyn, Streets, Club, Congress

• ‘Brooklyn’s Finest,’ this is the kind of movie that’s why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Brooklyn, Movie, Actor

• Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn’t change that experience for anything.

  Neil Diamond

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  Tags in Brooklyn, Change

• I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

  Tony Visconti

  Tags in Brooklyn

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  Warren Cuccurullo

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