Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner

I grew up fly fishing when I was a kid. The feeling of it is fun. I went fly-fishing on Lake Delaware once, and I caught a record brook trout.

Aaron Staton
Aaron Staton

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

Ad Reinhardt
Ad Reinhardt

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.

Adam Cole
Adam Cole

I always think back to that first night in Brooklyn, where I debuted, and it was this total surprise. I just remember thinking, 'I hope they care. I hope they remember me.' The way they embraced me that night, I knew it was the start of something special.

Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson

I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

Adam Neumann
Adam Neumann

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Aja Brown
Aja Brown

Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.

Aja Brown
Aja Brown

It's almost hip to, you know, be from Brooklyn or to live in Brooklyn.

Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment.