A Quote by Colin Jost

Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.

Colin Jost

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Colin Jost
American - Comedian
Born: June 29, 1982

Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.

Julia Fox

Every time we have a chance to mention it, we say we're from Staten Island. Because of some of the stereotypes, sometimes Staten Island gets a bad rap, and we're in a position to at least try to maybe change that perception.

Sal Vulcano

I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it's the most amazing view of New York. And it's free! You see Ellis Island, and it conjures up something of that great moment: you know, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It's staggering.

Tim Pigott-Smith

In the summer of 2007, I was in New York for some meetings and... I rented a car and just drove to Staten Island to take a glance and remind myself about it. I ended up staying a couple of days there in a hotel and I've been all over the island several times since.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

Arthur Ashe

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

Vito Fossella

I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

Cassandra Clare

My name is Carmella, and I'm the moonwalking, trash-talking princess of Staten Island.

Carmella

Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.

Colin Jost

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

Jason Alexander

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

Vinny Guadagnino

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

Theo Rossi

I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.

Craig Mazin

Staten Island is set off completely by itself in its own world, and that's one of the fascinating things about it, dramatically.

Lawrence O'Donnell

When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip hop, you wanna be on the radio, that's the first thing. So we was more or less infatuated with just havin' a song on the radio, you know? Before our careers even launched it was more or less about lettin' everybody know, 'Staten Island? You got good emcees there.'