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Newark faces real challenges.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Faces
Newark
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Why aren't the Nets playing in Newark?
Shaquille O'neal / Basketball Player
Nba
Newark
Referee
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I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Grenade
Newark
Meant
Gladly
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I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.
Tom Douglas /
Hometown
Honorary
Newark
Mayor
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I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Newark
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries / U.s. Representative
Brooklyn
Might
Newark
Tougher
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I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie.
Shaquille O'neal / Basketball Player
Juvenile
Newark
Delinquent
Dreamed
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We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere.
Kshama Sawant / Software Engineer
Children
Newark
Rotting
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We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Newark
Public School
School System
Unless
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What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?
Richard Ben Cramer / Journalist
Dinner Table
Newark
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
Eddie Trunk / Music Historian
Assessment
Jersey
Manhattan
Newark
Airport
Bad Rap
Ride
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I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.
Jimmy Scott / Vocalist
Encouragement
Burning
Burning Desire
Newark
Settling
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There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Newark
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When I was at MIT I was a good model minority. But the concept of an Indian immigrant creating e-mail in Newark, N.J., blows the mind of certain people.
Shiva Ayyadurai /
Mit
Newark
Good Mind People
Minority
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I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Crossroads
Newark
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In 1978, there was a 14-year-old boy working in Newark. He did in fact create the inter-office mail system and called it email. What they did before 1978 was text messaging.
Shiva Ayyadurai /
Mail
Newark
Boy
In Fact
Messaging
Text
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The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Conferences
Festivals
Newark
Thesis
Strides
Undeniable
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We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Conclusion
Newark
Perception
Right Road
Tipping
Corner
Heading
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To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
Norman Granz / Music Producer
London
Madrid
Newark
Next Week
Philadelphia
Play
Warsaw
Years
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I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Housing
Moved
Newark
Public Housing
Residents
Towers
Believed
Brick
Central
Public
Project
Grade
Owned
Privately
Ward
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I love Newark, but it was easy to get caught up in the wrong situation. You know, when you come from very humble beginnings, you always have that fear that everything could go away at any moment.
Michael B. Jordan / Actor
Caught
Easy
Newark
Situation
Love Fear Always
Beginnings
Go Away
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I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.
Marshall Curry / Filmmaker
Drivers
Nascar
Newark
Racing
Drawn
Mayor
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The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Big Things
Newark
Checked
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When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Newark
Roots
Spiritual
Family Me City
Connection
Family City Me
Reminded
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My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's name was LeRoi, the French-ified aspect of it, because his first name was Coyette, you see. They come from South Carolina.
Amiri Baraka / Writer
Aspect
Carolina
Newark
South Carolina
Time Family Long
Family Time Father
First Name
Family Time Long
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When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Cities
Narrative
Newark
Residents
Social Media
Drew
Embraced
Participate
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My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.
Ali Smith / Writer
Father
Ireland
Mother
Newark
Scotland
Somewhere Else
Ended
North
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After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Conditions
Example
Housing
Law School
Newark
Proud
Residents
Streets
Urban
Began
Center
Organizing
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I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Firm
Mountain
Newark
Rangers
Valleys
Law Firm
Peaks
Reject
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A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden.
Matthew Desmond /
Camden
Cities
Detroit
Margins
Newark
San Francisco
Urban
Francisco
San
Toughest
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If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.
Frankie Valli / Singer
Heat
Hot Water
Newark
Rooms
Lined
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We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets that need a number of years to really pan out. We've seen and learned how important it is to listen to the community and really get a sense of what they need and want. And it's a long journey.
Priscilla Chan /
Journey
Long Journey
Newark
Teachers
Bets
Number
Invested
Pan
Schools
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I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.
Carson Daly / Talk Show Host
New York
California
East
Father
Newark
Real
Yankees
Family Father New
Catch
Connection
Passed
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You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Anger
Alienation
National Guard
Newark
Pain
Protect
Residents
Response
Troops
Violence
Lot
Understand
After
Allegedly
Those
Carried
Coming
Explosion
Guard
Initial
National
Riots
Sending
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In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Federal Government
Flexibility
Newark
State Government
Federal Level
Local Level
Seize
Zero-Sum
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