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


Rudolph A. Marcus


#began #brooklyn #fully #hired #i

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.


Betty Smith


#beauty

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.


Curt Weldon


#able danger #al #brooklyn #cells #chairman

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


David Wilkerson


#began #bronx #brooklyn #gangs #happen

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.


Connie Stevens


#am #brooklyn #could #dogs #had

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.


Vito Fossella


#city #disproportionately #financial #financial services #i

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.


Frank McCourt


#before #brooklyn #childhood #here #i

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.


Barbra Streisand


#girl #i #i think #myself #think

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.


Robert Quine


#bookstore #brooklyn #drank #got #i

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.


Ad Reinhardt


#because #best #brooklyn #country #department






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