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But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. Jason Alexander | top
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. Kurtis Blow | top
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When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. Dominic Chianese | top
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When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. Cy Coleman | top
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Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. Howard Cosell | top
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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. Tony Curtis | top
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As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx. Kool Moe Dee | top
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In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. Kool Moe Dee | top
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I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for. Eliot Engel | top
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Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. Paul Farmer | top
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky. Ace Frehley | top
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx. Arthur Hertzberg | top
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Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame. Robert Klein | top
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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. Jonathan Kozol | top
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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. Ralph Lauren | top
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When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. Daniel Libeskind | top
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I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. Jennifer Lopez | top
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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx. Al Pacino | top
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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. Colin Powell | top
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The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx. Jose Serrano | top
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I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. Sonia Sotomayor | top
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Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. David Wilkerson | top
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My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. Philip Zimbardo | top
