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If the borough of Manhattan was peaceful, but there was a car bomb in Brooklyn every day, it's tough to talk about the tranquility.


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When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
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ELLEN BURSTYN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER O'Malley wanted to move the Dodgers out of Brooklyn because he saw the promised land. He was rig...
JERRY REINSDORF Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, ...
CURTIS GRANDERSON We all knew this day was coming. If you want to talk about bloody, divisive and all that, competing ...
JAKE VARN So far we only know that the bomb was in a Suzuki car.
MANZOOR MUGHAL The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA We're going to bring the whole Brooklyn experience to Manhattan.
ALAN ROSEN I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who h...
MAURY WILLS I didn't know if it was an earthquake, I didn't know if it was a bomb. I came downstairs, and there'...
CLINT WALKER I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at B...
RICK RIORDAN Peaceful tranquility – this is the right way in the world.
LAO TZU It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
ANTHONY WEINER Tranquility is a Choice. So is Anxiety. The entire world around us may be in Turmoil. But if we want...
RVM You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.
MICHAEL FRANTI I was taught nothing about the suffragettes in school. The version I eventually got was mainly about...
SARAH GAVRON Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three time...
PHILIP KERR Our purpose was not to bring concerns to the borough. From day one, we wanted to come here and use o...
MAN WONG I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhat...
DIEGO DELLA VALLE It was an act of terrorism. So far we can only say that it was a bomb fitted in a car.
JEHANGIR MIRZA Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bi...
DAVID BYRNE Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no...
JAMES C. DOBSON And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and ...
MOBY I think if our police officers put their energies in the borough solely, and we have one officer per...
CHARLES ECKSTINE He was convicted on his own statement. There was absolutely no evidence [my client] had anything per...
BILL HICKS I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th...
THEO JAMES He had told us he was under attack every day, ... People kept telling me he'll be in a safe place be...
JAMES BARBER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followe...
CHARLIE SIFFORD People talk about Magic Johnson when he was playing. Every day, they bring an energy.
NORV TURNER Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began t...
DAVID WILKERSON That was the day the bomb went off.
ANTHONY BLISS When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. Tha...
DANNY MASTERSON It was peaceful. The students yelled, but there was no fighting.
TUSTIN AMOLE Our evidence shows (Corrine Smith) was not strapped in, ... There was a car seat in the car, but she...
TOM BYRNE I'd never seen anyone work like Al. If there was a scene where his character was getting into a car,...
D.J. CARUSO I was born in Manhattan, raised in Queens, went to high school and college in Brooklyn. My father wa...
PETER T. KING Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it wa...
VAL GUEST It was Brooklyn against the world. They were not only complete fanatics, but they knew baseball like...
LEO DUROCHER It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsw...
RUPI KAUR It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versail...
HANS FRANK It's tough with all the new faces, but it's great to see them all out there. The coaching staff meet...
DYLAN HOLLINGSWORTH I was trying not run it off the green, because the ball was plugged in there. It was a tough shot, b...
BOB GILDER They say Iran has to stop its peaceful nuclear activity since there is a probability of diversion wh...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with...
ANNIE JACOBSEN Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 ...
ROSANNE CASH I had a lot to learn. It was all about staying tough mentally, staying up every day and keeping my b...
KURT SUZUKI A bomb under the west car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England fo...
PHILIP TOYNBEE It was a tough day. Still, there were a lot of good times. The guys relay team was great.
BARBARA HOUCK Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it wo...
HENRY DE BRACTON Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it wo...
RAY BRADBURY If the idea of the borough was to make the workers disappear, that failed completely. We now have th...
MAHONRRY HIDALGO The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA He said there was no three-day waiting period. He said the car was mine.
JULES PAPP Turnout was high and the day was largely peaceful, all communities participated.
CRAIG JENNESS It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right...
ANDRE HOLLAND Each plane was making two or three missions a day. Some of them were just terrible. They were gettin...
DOLORIA CHAPIN There was a lot of talk about China.
HOWARD WARD The health effects of uranium really haven't been studied since the Manhattan Project (the developme...
DIANE STEARNS There was some talk about them finding someone else to do the program. As I understand it, it was a ...
CARL LAUNDRIE But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five ...
WILL ARNETT Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music...
ELLIOTT CARTER I think if there was a dirty bomb attack in any of our major cities, we would be very unprepared,
CHRIS SHAYS I heard it was a hostile environment and I heard in the CIAA every place we play is going to be toug...
JAMAL DURHAM If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.
DONNA LYNN HOPE The zoning board did its job. We heard from all the parties and there were a lot of residents worrie...
BILL MARTIN One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M....
PETE HAMILL It was like a war zone down there, there was just crap everywhere. It was like a bomb went off on ev...
DUSTIN BRUNS mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.
JACK FORD The idea of a little borough nestled in the farms of eastern Pennsylvania getting sued caused town o...
RUSSELL ATKINSON Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything ne...
ALEC BALDWIN If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who par...
JULIE ASK It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether ...
ANTON ALAM It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether ...
ANTON BAHRUL ALAM There was a lot on the line. We didn't want to talk about it, but we all knew.
DEL WORSHAM I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was...
JON HUNTSMAN, JR. 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 It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE There was a lot of talk about a couple of coaches leaving, and if they were I was at least intereste...
DETLEF SCHREMPF The car thing was rough. When the car broke down and we had to spend that money, I think, psychologi...
HEATHER DEXTER You have to have four persons in a car in order to get into Manhattan.
CLAIRE LEKA It was a little tough to talk to the guys I played with,
PETER FORSBERG It's tough to put in words how good a quarter it was -- but we'll try. Not only was the absolute num...
GLENN SCHORR We've been talking about it and putting up little things every day of the week. That's helped us to ...
JUSTIN PARNELL He was down in each set and came back to win. (Wallace) was tough, but Velarde hung in there. The th...
TOM LONERGAN Everybody has heard about Jackie Robinson, but you don't hear as much about the great ones who came ...
BILLY HATCHER At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV I told her that Jeff Buckley brings a tear to my eye. By coincidence Jackie was a Buckley fan had be...
GARY SUFFIR Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as tryi...
DAN JENKINS The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the ani...
RAY PARK I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a ...
JERRY DOYLE I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turne...
CHEECH MARIN The government [claimed] this was turning into massive civil unrest, ... In fact, that was not the c...
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JACKIE STEWART From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
JACKIE STEWART I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same numbe...
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JACKIE KENNEDY Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
JACKIE KENNEDY The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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JACKIE KENNEDY I want to live my life, not record it.
JACKIE KENNEDY I am a woman above everything else.
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JACKIE EVANCHO I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
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JACKIE COOPER But the working I would always want to do.
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JACKIE COOPER There was only so much television you could do.
JACKIE COOPER To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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JACKIE COLLINS Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want ...
JACKIE COLLINS Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else wo...
JACKIE COLLINS I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k...
JACKIE COLLINS Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's reall...
JACKIE COLLINS The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time wit...
JACKIE COLLINS I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They...
JACKIE COLLINS I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then...
JACKIE COLLINS My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
JACKIE COLLINS I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about ...
JACKIE COLLINS I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne becau...
JACKIE COLLINS Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you...
JACKIE COLLINS I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know ...
JACKIE COLLINS If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to ...
JACKIE COLLINS Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
JACKIE CHAN My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of T...
JACKIE CHAN I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
JACKIE CHAN In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. P...
JACKIE CHAN For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real ...
JACKIE CHAN A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared...
JACKIE CHAN Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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