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" 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. "

" After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began. "

Rudolph A. Marcus

" After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really. "

" Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge. "

Jason Calacanis

" 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. "

" Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. "

David Wilkerson

" Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn. "

Fab Five Freddy

" As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood. "

" At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since. "

" Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences. "

" Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn. "

" Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn. "

" Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day. "

" Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are. "

" Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do. "

Theophilus London

" Brooklyn is a very weird borough. "

" Brooklyn is definitely the only place to live in the New York area. I love Brooklyn. Go Brooklyn! "

" Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. "

" Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. "

" '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. "

" Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening. "

" Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers. "

Roberto Clemente

" Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were. "

" Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him. "

Theophilus London

" 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. "

" Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn. "

" Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. "

" Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking. "

Seann William Scott

" 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

" From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. "

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