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My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an…

— David Lee

I grew up in New York City, but the rest of the world was a very big part of my upbringing.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

— Howard Schultz

My dad was going to graduate school at Columbia, in New York, so we moved there. After he graduated, we ended up settling in…

— Lisa Su

I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton…

— Andrew Zimmern

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God…

— Woody Allen

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to…

— El-P

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

— Frank McCourt

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a…

— Salman Rushdie

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

— Michele Lee

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents,…

— Christopher Walken

My parents weren't cultured people.

— Marcel Wanders