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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening. WARIS DIRIE
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dan... LARRY KING
This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I ... JASON KIDD For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Fr...
MITCH KAPOR You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don...
VANESSA FERLITO
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanni...
DAKOTA FANNING
No, I ain't a star - I'm just a kid from Brooklyn, living his dream. ASTRO Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER
I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in... DANNY DEVITO I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and ...
AUBREY PLAZA
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that herita... HOWARD SCHULTZ So often at home in the West Village, I'm like, 'Why aren't I allowed a horse?' I wo...
CARY FUKUNAGA
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. PATRICK EWING It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My s...
M.I.A. I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed,...
IAN SCHRAGER
I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to... ASTRO I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.
MICHAEL MUSTO
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria... VINCE VAUGHN I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from...
QUVENZHANE WALLIS I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic lo...
DOMINIC CHIANESE It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna...
VANESSA KERRY I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a...
BARRY MANILOW I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I t... ERIK LARSON
I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to... BRIAN DENNEHY
I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it. ROSIE PEREZ
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You kn... DEBI MAZAR
A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and ... MOBY
I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm... AGNES GUND After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I n...
JAY LONDON
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote... GAIL CARSON LEVINE
In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, ... GEORGE VECSEY
Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and... BINDI IRWIN I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much t...
HOAGY CARMICHAEL
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. Th... BRUNO MARS
I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my... CAMILA CABELLO To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.
DALLAS ATHENT I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not a...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN
My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and... BOOBOO STEWART
Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselve... JIMMY IOVINE I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other plac...
DAVE SITEK Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, a...
MING-NA WEN I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's bod...
REBECCA MADER
I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bi... DAVID BYRNE My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a ...
IAN GOMEZ
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tene... MARK HELPRIN My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was i...
ELOISE MUMFORD My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.
NICO MIRALLEGRO I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
BERT WILLIAMS My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever h...
GENE MAUCH I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sister...
KATE UPTON I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very yo...
LANA PARRILLA I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot...
DAVID LAMBERT
My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-... CLIVE DAVIS My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO
I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope... ZOE KAZAN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to...
PATRICK MURPHY
'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to ... ETHAN HAWKE
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are peo... ELLEN BURSTYN I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationsh...
ALICIA KEYS My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially m...
BILL O'REILLY My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially m...
BILL O'REILLY On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comical... LAKE BELL
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M... JAY-Z Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the be...
FAB FIVE FREDDY About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN
I think the most fun part about working on 'Good Luck Charlie' is spending time with everyon... BRADLEY STEVEN PERRY I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wif...
PABLO SCHREIBER I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, t...
STEVEN ADAMS I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacifi...
RAMI MALEK
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I wou... JOE TORRE If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my ...
FRANK LAMPARD
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Al... SUZANNE COLLINS
I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced again... SEBASTIAN COE
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now. DON DELILLO
There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by ... DAX SHEPARD I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to loung...
WYNTER GORDON You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.
BRANDY NORWOOD Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. C...
JUDITH FLANDERS I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th...
THEO JAMES
I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own 'Dyn... JOAN COLLINS There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself a...
BRIAN POSEHN My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from...
KADEE STRICKLAND
When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur... SAMANTHA FOX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE
My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married... VANILLA ICE We're just a big media family. My mom is always sending us articles throughout the day. My husba...
ALLISON WILLIAMS I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job ...
MING-NA WEN
First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gott... DENIS LEARY I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the ...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
DAKOTA FANNING
In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. ... ODELL BECKHAM, JR.
It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get v... GILLIAN ANDERSON
When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and dis... 
I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it bec... 
She has to be one of the favorites to win the Olympic trials,'' said Vanderbilt women's coach Jim S... 