Way before it was popular, he said that I could go far in this business. He kept saying I'd be president and then I said I'd be state president. He encouraged me, and I never thought that I, a little boy from Brooklyn, New York, could do those things. Mel was always ahead of the curve.
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From the time I could read, I've been devouring these things. I had a allowance growing up in Brooklyn and I spent the whole thing every week at the Nostrand Avenue Comics shop.
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For instance, he had a show at the Brooklyn Museum. An opening would have been the start of a career for many artists. Instead of going, he hopped on his bike and cycled off and got on a plane and went to China.
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When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn.
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Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.
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We definitely see it as a second home. We're really set on making that commitment to this city even though it is more difficult to be here because we're more visible here than in (New York's) Brooklyn.
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There's a scene at the end of the movie where I tell her, 'You know you've got to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge
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This is a further attempt by the Brooklyn district attorney's office to besmirch Lou's excellent reputation and to discredit an otherwise outstanding and remarkable police career,.. With Lou's career, there is nothing to ever run from.
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Peter O'Malley grew up in the '50s around the clubhouse, so all of us who were playing in his kid days mean a lot to him. Peter's made a very conscious effort to reconnect the Brooklyn team with the Los Angeles history, and he's done that.
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Our guests, when they arrive on board, they are going to see that. When they depart, they are going to see it, so there is no detraction for the arrival or departure here coming into Brooklyn.
He's pretty easygoing, a real Brooklyn guy.
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This case is the latest of several joint operations demonstrating our commitment to protecting New York neighborhoods from violent street gangs. For years, this Latin Kings crew controlled the drug trade in the area of Jefferson Street and Central and Irving Avenues in Brooklyn through fear and intimidation. With this prosecution we have ended their reign and taken another step toward returning one of our communities to its law-abiding residents.
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On a practical level, the design creates a new direct link to Governors Island for both tourists and Island workers from both Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. The system is very light, using only three supports, none of which stands in the water, so the shipping channels are left completely open.
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I had a completely positive experience with them. I was shocked to hear the allegations coming out of Brooklyn. To my knowledge, there were no forged death certificates. None of the bodies had communicable diseases. I don't think any of those problems took place in Rochester.
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There's nothing tough (about basketball. All I have to do is remind him how I was brought up and how I was raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., around the peer pressure and everything. This is nothing compared to that. Everything he's learned in that aspect it's just toughened him up even more to face this kind of good adversity.
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I was educated in the public school system of New York City and was bright enough to be accepted at Brooklyn College.
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I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to America in the early 1900's. My father was a tailor and my mother, a housewife. Though of limited education themselves, they instilled in me the values of intellectual achievement and the use of whatever talents I possessed.
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A court hearing is underway in a Brooklyn court.
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I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.
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Professors certainly have a right to disagree about pedagogy,.. It would have been both illegal and immoral for Brooklyn College to allow KC Johnson to face another official inquisition. Thankfully, this dire outcome has been averted.
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In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.
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When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.
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We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.
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I take full responsibilities for my actions. I also hope that my fans, especially those in Brooklyn, can accept my apology.
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Since nudes in all countries and centuries possess standard equipment, it's difficult to say precisely why the pictures at the Brooklyn Museum right now are so thoroughly American.
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